* At the $1,036,000 Medibank International tennis tournament in Sydney, Australia (through January 13):
Men's singles:
- No.2-seed Nikolai Davydenko advanced to the second round, defeating Vincent Spadea (U.S.) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Yevgeny Korolyov advanced to the second round, beating Hyung-Taik Lee (S. Korea) 6-7, 6-3, 6-2
Women's singles:
- No.2-seed Svetlana Kuznetsova failed to advance to the quarterfinals after she retired in the second set against Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia) due to illness
- Nadezhda Petrova (4) failed to advance to the quarterfinals after she retired in the second set against Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) due to injury
- Yelena Dementyeva (6) failed to advance to the quarterfinals, losing to Na Li (China) 6-3, 1-6, 5-7
Women's doubles:
- Vera Dushevina and Yuliiana Fedak (Ukraine) failed to advance to the quarterfinals, losing to No.4-seed duo Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Germany)/Meghann Shaughnessy (U.S.) 6-1, 3-6, 2-6
- Galina Voskoboyeva and Janette Husarova (Slovakia) lost to Bartoli (France) and Meilen Tu (U.S.) 7-6, 6-7, 2-6 in the first round
* At the $145,000 Moorilla Hobart International WTA tennis tournament in Hobart, Australia (through January 12):
Singles:
- Vasilissa Bardina advanced to the quarterfinals, beating Aiko Nakamura (Japan) 6-4, 6-4
- Olga Puchkova advanced to the second round, defeating Tzipora Obziler (Israel) 0-6, 6-2, 7-6
Doubles:
- No.4-seed pair Yelena Likhovtseva and Yelena Vesnina advanced to the quarterfinals, beating Stephanie Foretz (France) and Martina Muller (Germany) 6-2, 7-5
- Anastassia Rodionova and Andreea Vanc (Romania) advanced to the quarterfinals, beating Poland's duo Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska 7-6, 6-4
