US Open Tennis Championship in New York Day 1

BANGKOK, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Second-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga needed a pair of tie-break wins Wednesday to get out of the second round of the $576,000 Thailand Open in Bangkok.

MUQDADIYAH, Iraq, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. military and civilian contractors are formally training Iraqi army troops and police as part of the effort to improve professionalism and bring stability to the country, but in a small slice of Diyala province an ad hoc program is being run by a participant and survivor of al-Qaida's attacks on New York seven years ago.

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Mischa Zverev of Germany and Czech Ivo Minar defeated French opponents Sunday in the opening round of the hard-court Pilot Pen Tennis event in Connecticut.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Fourth-seeded Tommy Haas won his first-round match Monday at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, topping Rik De Voest 6-4, 4-6, 6-1.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Tommy Haas lost while Marat Safin and Carols Moya advanced in first-round play Tuesday in the Countywide Classic tennis event in Los Angeles.

NEWPORT, R.I., July 10 (UPI) -- Canadian Frank Dancevic and wild card player Prakash Amritraj advanced Thursday to the semifinals of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Rhode Island.

NEWPORT, R.I., July 7 (UPI) -- Sixth-seeded American Donald Young was a first-round winner Monday at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.

NOTTINGHAM, England, June 17 (UPI) -- No. 1-seeded Radek Stepanek and three other seeded players recorded straight-set wins in the first round of The Slazenger Open tennis tournament in England.

PORTSCHACH, Austria, May 19 (UPI) -- Top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko dropped just two games en route to a first-round victory Monday at the Hypo Group International tennis tournament in Austria.

HOUSTON, April 14 (UPI) -- Sixth-seeded Dudi Sela of Israel posted a straight-sets, first-round win over Robby Ginepri Monday at the $436,000 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships.