TENNIS ROUNDUP : Woodforde Eliminates Rostagno

Derrick Rostagno was the first seeded player to fall in the $260,000 AT&T; Challenge tournament at Atlanta, losing to Australian Mark Woodforde, 6-1, 6-3, Monday.

Woodforde, a left-handed serve-and-volley player who has recently found his footing on clay, reeled off 13 consecutive points at the start of the match.

In the second set, Woodforde broke serve to lead, 3-2, and Rostagno, seeded fifth, faded.

“I can run every ball down, but I’ve seen Derrick come back from the dead and turn a match around, so it was a matter of keeping collected on my thoughts about why I was winning,” Woodforde said.

MaliVai Washington, seeded sixth, got by qualifier Jonathan Stark, 7-5, 6-4.

Top-seeded Steffi Graf was pressed before defeating unseeded Debbie Graham, 6-0, 7-6 (7-3), in the opening round at Hamburg, Germany. Graf has won the tournament five times.

Unseeded Markus Naewie of Germany defeated fifth-seeded Richard Krajicek of the Netherlands, 6-4, 6-4, in the first round at Munich, Germany.

Bjorn Borg will play today.

Javier Sanchez of Spain swept Patrick McEnroe in the opening round of the City of Madrid Grand Prix, 6-4, 6-0.