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Washington, DC - Top-seeded American Andy Roddick downed unseeded countryman John Isner in straight sets to win the $600,000 Legg Mason Tennis Classic for a third time.

Roddick bested the 22-year old Isner, who starred collegiately at the University of Georgia, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4).

With the win, Roddick captured his 23rd career title in his 36th final. He’s now won 10 straight matches at this event after missing last year’s tournament due to an abdominal strain.

Roddick, the 2006 U.S. Open runner-up, also titled here in 2001 and 2005.

The 6-foot-9 Isner, who led the Bulldogs to the NCAA title last year, was playing in just his second-ever ATP event and was ranked 416th in the world.

Roddick pocketed $74,250 for his win.

Washington, DC - France’s Arnaud Clement and American Mardy Fish both fell in the second round at the $600,000 Legg Mason Tennis Classic on Wednesday.

The fourth-seeded Clement, who beat Britain’s Andy Murray in last year’s finale, suffered the early exit when he was toppled by Swedish veteran Thomas Johansson, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Johansson, who had reached the second round for just the second time in his last seven tournaments, evened his career record against Clement to 5-5, while avenging a loss at their Nottingham opener in May.

Fish, meanwhile, dropped a hard-fought battle to Germany’s Michael Berrer 7-6 (7-4), 6-4.

After losing the tiebreaker in the first set, the sixth-seeded Fish, who was battling tendinitis in both knees, went down a break in the second before managing to pull even at 3-3. However, he lost serve again to fall behind 5-4, and Berrer served out the match in the next game.

Unseeded American John Isner fared much better in an upset of No. 8 Benjamin Becker. The 22-year-old Isner, who is appearing in just his second career ATP- level tournament, held off the German for a 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (8-6) victory.

German Tommy Haas, who holds the No. 2 seed, closed out a busy day on the hardcourt at FitzGerald Tennis Center, coasting to a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Colombian Alejandro Falla.

It was the first match for Haas since Wimbledon, where he withdrew with a torn stomach muscle before a fourth-round match against Roger Federer.

Haas now will face No. 16 Michael Russell, who moved on after Wesley Whitehouse retired with Russell holding a 7-6 (7-1), 4-1 advantage.

Also advancing to the third round was No. 7 Croat Ivo Karlovic, who handled Russian Evgeny Korolev in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3.

Karlovic will next play 12th-seeded American Vince Spadea, who beat South African Wesley Moodie 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-3).

In a battle that went two hours and 32 minutes, American wild card Wayne Odesnik outlasted 18-year-old Argentine Juan Martin del Potro, 3-6, 7-6 (12-10), 6-3.

In other action, No. 11 Julien Benneteau polished off Kei Nishikori, 6-2, 6-3.

Czech Radek Stepanek was also victorious, as he defeated D.C.-native Paul Goldstein 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in just under two hours.

Stepanek, who holds the No. 15 seed, has won six consecutive matches and nine of 10 overall. In victory, he also set up his third career meeting with two- time Washington champion and top-seeded Andy Roddick.

Washington, DC - Top-seeded American Andy Roddick cruised past Czech Tomas Zib, 6-4, 6-2 to reach the third round at the $600,000 Legg Mason Tennis Classic.

Roddick, who titled at this event in 2001 and 2005, has compiled a 19-3 record and the two titles in his five Washington appearances. He missed last year’s event due to an abdominal strain.

Third-seeded Russian Marat Safin and fifth-seeded South Korean Hyung-Taik Lee also won their second-round encounters on the hardcourts at FitzGerald Tennis Center. Safin topped Czech Jan Hernych, 6-2, 2-6, 6-2; and Lee beat Russian Igor Kunitsyn, 6-7 (7-9), 6-3, 6-1.

Ninth seed Gael Monfils of France beat Slovakian wild card Martin Klizan, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4; American Amer Delic, the 13th seed, rallied past Chilean Paul Capdeville, 6-7 (5-7), 7-5; and Dutchman Robin Haase squeezed past 14th-seeded Frenchman Michael Llodra, 6-2, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-4) in second-round action.

Additional first-round wins came for South Africans Wesley Moodie and Wesley Whitehouse, Japan’s Kei Nishikori, Americans Paul Goldstein, Wayne Odesnik and John Isner, and Germany’s Michael Berrer.

Frenchman Arnaud Clement is the defending champion and will play his second- round match Wednesday against Swede Thomas Johansson.

Washington, DC - Chilean Paul Capdeville and Czech Jan Hernych both advanced in the first round at the $600,000 Legg Mason Tennis Classic on Monday.

Capdeville bounced back from a first set loss to beat Serbian Ilia Bozoljac 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 on the hardcourts at FitzGerald Tennis Center.

Hernych had an easy time as he advanced after Australian Nathan Healey retired in the second set. Hernych won the first set 6-3 while the second set was tied 1-1 when Healey called it quits with a left rib injury.

Hernych next faces world No. 1 Marat Safin, the No. 3 seed this week

Wild Card Slovakian Martin Klizan knocked out Greece’s Konstantinos Economidis 6-4, 6-3 while Swede Thomas Johansson overcame a tough challenge to defeat Colombian teenager Santiago Giraldo 7-6 (9-7), 6-7 (7-5), 6-4.

Johansson will next face France’s Arnaud Clement, who beat Englishman Andy Murray in last year’s final here.

Robin Haase, of the Netherlands, defeated Great Britian’s Alex Bogdanovic in straight sets 6-4, 6-2.

In other action, Russian Evgeny Korolev easily handled Brazilian Ricardo Mello 6-4, 6-4 and Korolev’s countryman Igor Kunitsyn came back to down France’s Sebastien Grosjean 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 6-3.

The final match on Monday saw Colombian Alejandro Falla down American Robert Kendrick 3-6, 6-2, 7-5.

This week’s top seed is American Andy Roddick, who titled here in 2001 and 2005.

Filippo Volandri was an upset victim.

Sopot, Poland - Fourth-seeded Italian Filippo Volandri and sixth-seeded Spaniard Nicolas Almagro came up first-round losers Monday at the clay-court Orange Prokom Open. Polish wild card Michal Przysiezny knocked out Volandri 6-4, 2-6, 7-5, while Argentine Mariano Zabaleta ousted Almagro in 6-3, 7-5 fashion at SKT Sopot.

In other opening-round play, Spaniard Albert Montanes mauled Argentine Diego Hartfield 6-1, 6-3 and Argentine Jose Acasuso erased Austrian Werner Eschauer 6-2, 6-3. Montanes will meet Zabaleta in the second round.

Russian Igor Andreev was leading Ecuador’s Nicolas Lapentti 6-0, 3-3 when their match was suspended for the day because of rain.

This week’s top seeds are Russian Nikolay Davydenko and Spaniard Tommy Robredo. Davydenko beat German Florian Mayer in last year’s finale

Kitzbuhel, Austria - Fifth-seeded Argentine Juan Monaco came back to best 10th-seeded Italian Potito Starace in Sunday’s final of the $1.079 million Austrian Open.

Graffiti Wall reports that Monaco, who upset top-seed and world No. 7 Tommy Robredo in the quarterfinals, dropped the first set but rebounded to outlast Starace, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, in a match that lasted nearly 2 1/2 hours.

The pair had met just two times previously with both bouts taking place in Buenos Aires. Starace won the first meeting last year, but Monaco avenged that defeat at the same tournament in February 2007 en route to his maiden ATP title.

This was the third career title for Monaco, who also won in May at Portschach.

The Argentine star took home $150,000 for his efforts.

Canadian Frank Dancevic gained his first berth in an ATP final, upsetting Andy Roddick in straight sets at the $575,000 Indianapolis Tennis Championships.

Roddick failed in his attempt to win the tournament for a third time as Dancevic won the semifinal encounter 6-4, 7-6 (7-1). The 22-year-old native from Niagara Falls became the first Canadian citizen to reach an ATP final since Greg Rusedski won the title in Seoul on April 30, 1995.

Roddick, the 2003 and ‘04 champion at this event on the tennis schedule, lost to fellow American James Blake in last year’s final.

Dancevic’s opponent in the final will be third-seeded Russian Dmitry Tursunov, who had to play two matches on Saturday due to persistent rain a day earlier. First, Tursunov beat Japanese qualifier Kei Nishikori, 6-1, 6-4, and then he topped American Sam Querrey, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 in the semifinals.

Blake had his quarterfinal match pushed back from Friday to Saturday due to rain, and the second seed lost to Querrey, 7-6 (8-6), 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-4).

Tursunov beat Dancevic in their only other meeting, which happened to be this June at the Artois Championships in London. That victory came in straight sets.

Tursunov has one career title, which was last year in Mumbai.

Sunday’s winner will take home $73,000.

Indianapolis, IN - Andy Roddick waited out the rain and then beat sixth-seeded South Korean Hyung-Taik Lee, 6-3, 6-7 (7-9), 6-1 Friday night to advance to the semifinals at the $575,000 Indianapolis Tennis Championships.

Roddick, who moved to 9-1 lifetime against Lee, is on track for his third title at this tournament. He won in 2003 and ‘04 before losing to fellow American James Blake in last year’s final.

Blake’s match with Sam Querrey was postponed because of rain and the two will be on court Saturday at 11 a.m. (et) for their quarterfinal. The second-seeded Blake will try to win his eighth straight match at this tournament.

One other quarterfinal match was completed Friday night as Canadian Frank Dancevic topped Russian Igor Kunitsyn, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3). Dancevic is rewarded with a semifinal match against Roddick.

There is another quarterfinal set for Saturday as third-seeded Russian Dmitry Tursunov plays Japan’s Kei Nishikori on the hardcourts at the Indianapolis Tennis Center.

Kitzbuhel, Austria - Top-seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo was upended by fifth-seeded Argentine Juan Monaco in Friday’s quarterfinal action at the $1.085 million Austrian Open.

Graffiti Wall reports that Monaco dismissed the world No. 7 Robredo in 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 fashion on the red clay at Casino Stadion. Monaco improved to 2-14 in his career against top-10 competition.

Meanwhile, sixth-seeded and defending champion Agustin Calleri avoided an upset by handling 2001 Kitzbuhel titlist Nicolas Lapentti of Ecuador 7-6 (7-5), 6-1. Lapentti was the 15th seed this week.

Calleri beat Juan Ignacio Chela in last year’s all-Argentine finale here.

In other round-of-eight play, 10th-seeded Potito Starace saved a match point in order to overcome fellow Italian Andreas Seppi 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (9-7) and 11th-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco held off Argentine Sergio Roitman 7-6 (8-6), 3-6, 6-3. Verdasco reached the Kitzbuhel final in 2005, while Seppi was a finalist in Gstaad just two weeks ago.

Saturday’s semifinals will pit Calleri against Starace and Monaco versus Verdasco. Wins by Calleri and Monaco would produce an all-Argentine finale on Sunday.