Mon Jul 7 17:38:52 2008

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Young wins Newport opener

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Newport, RI (Sports Network) - Sixth-seeded American Donald Young highlighted Monday's first-round winners at the $385,000 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.

Young outlasted Korean qualifier Woong-Sun Jun 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 on the grass at the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

In other matches involving Americans, Indian qualifier Rohan Bopanna bounced Kevin Kim 6-3, 6-4, while qualifier Brendan Evans erased Chilean Paul Capdeville 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 and Vincent Spadea held off German Simon Stadler 6-2, 3-6, 6-4.

Additional wins came for Russian Mikhail Ledovskikh and Austrian qualifier Alexander Peya.

The top seeds here are American Mardy Fish and defending champion Fabrice Santoro, who defeated Nicolas Mahut in last year's all-French finale.