Luis Horna upset defending champion Tommy Robredo 6-1, 1-6, 6-1 on Monday in the first round of the Swedish Open.
Robredo was the top-seeded player at the tournament.
Fourth-seeded Carlos Moya defeated Ivan Navarro Pastor 6-2, 6-4 in an all-Spanish matchup, while Nicolas Massu of Chile rallied to beat Evgeny Korolev of Russia 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
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Second-seeded Vince Spadea beat fellow US player Justin Gimelstob 6-4, 6-3 on Monday in the opening round of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.
Spadea, a 2005 Newport finalist, broke Gimelstob's serve in the final game of the first set. It's his sixth career appearance on the Hall of Fame's grass courts.
"I made a final here. I was up a break in the third set," he recalled of his loss to 2005 champion Greg Rusedski. "I feel like I'm owed something so I keep coming back."
In other opening-round play: Roko Karanusic ousted sixth-seeded Teimuraz Gabashvili 6-4, 6-3; No. 8 seed Michael Berrer beat Chris Guccione 6-4, 7-6 (5); Wesley Moodie edged Thiago Alves 6-3, 6-4; and Frank Dancevic cruised past Kevin Kim, 6-3, 6-3.
Kristof Vliegen of Belgium extended Gaston Gaudio's woeful season by ousting the former champion 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-4 in the opening round of the Swiss Open on Monday.
Vliegen lost to Gaudio in the same round in straight sets four years ago in Gstaad, but Gaudio was no longer in the same form which would win him the French Open the following year, and the Swiss Open in 2005. A top-10 player then, the Argentine was ranked 103 now.
Gaudio, whose record fell to 6-13 for the year, had momentum when he won the second set tiebreaker, but an hour-long rain delay allowed Vliegen to refocus.
The loss marked Gaudio's earliest exit in seven appearances in Gstaad. Beside the 2005 title, he was also once a runner-up and twice a semi-finalist.
Former tennis world No. 1 Kim Clijsters is pregnant with her first child, Belgian sports Web site www.sport.be reported yesterday.
The Web site features a blog by Clijsters' father.
"If everything goes well, then Kim will become a mother next year and me a grandfather. Yippee," said Leo Clijsters, a former soccer star.
"Babysitting, changing pampers. All of which is no problem as long as I don't have to breastfeed," he said.
The 24-year-old tennis player, who had been blighted by injuries, quit in May to focus on her private life, including her forthcoming wedding to US basketball player Brian Lynch, but tennis fans had been eagerly awaiting a comeback.
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