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Kournikova breaks losing streak
LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- Anna Kournikova ended a five-match losing streak Tuesday with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Jana Kandarr in the first round of the US$170,000 SEAT Open. The 20-year-old Russian won her first match since coming back last month from a stress fracture of her left foot which has kept her out of action for most of the season. Kournikova, seeded fifth, now faces a tough second-round match with the promising Slovak teenager Daniela Hantuchova who defeated German qualifier Andrea Glass 6-4, 6-4. Italy's Francesca Schiavone became the first seed to tumble out of the tournament, upset in straight sets by Lubomira Bacheva of Bulgaria. Schiavone, seeded eighth, was unable to recover after losing the first set on a tiebreaker and collapsed 6-2 in the second. American doubles specialist Lisa Raymond, seeded sixth, won a hard-fought match with Spain's Marta Marrero. Raymond, who took the doubles title at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open this year with Rennae Stubbs, eventually overcame the 18-year-old Marrero 6-2, 2-6, 6-4. Raymond will face another Spanish teenager in the second round, Anabel Medina Garrigues, who beat Argentine qualifier Maria Emilia Salerni, 7-6 (6), 6-2. There was more American success for Jennifer Hopkins who fought back to take French wild card Virginie Razzano 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Without last year's winner and world No. 1 Jennifer Capriati, Kim Clijsters of Belgium is the favorite to recapture the title she took in 1999.
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