BNP Paribas Masters
$2.95 million men's tournament
At Paris
Singles
First round
Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia, def. Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentina, 6-3, 6-3.

Xavier Malisse, Belgium, def. Stefan Koubek, Austria, 5-7, 6-2, 6-0.

Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, def. Mariano Zabaleta, Argentina, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3.

Kenneth Carlsen, Denmark, def. Younes El Aynaoui, Morocco, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Arnaud Clement, France, def. Rainer Schuettler, Germany, 7-5, 6-3.

Gaston Gaudio, Argentina, def. Davide Sanguinetti, Italy, 6-4, 7-6 (1).

Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, def. Gustavo Kuerten, Brazil, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Nicolas Lapentti, Ecuador, def. Anthony Dupuis, France, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.

Doubles
First round
Michael Hill, Australia, and Leander Paes, India, def. Lucas Arnold and Gaston Etlis, Argentina, 6-4, 7-5.

Ellis Ferreira, South Africa, and Pavel Vizner, Czech Republic, def. Petr Pala and David Rikl, Czech Republic, 7-5, 6-2.

Nicolas Escude and Fabrice Santoro, France, def. Jeff Coetzee and Chris Haggard, South Africa, 6-1, 6-0.

Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, and Andrei Pavel, Romania, def. Sjeng Schalken, Netherlands, and Rainer Schuettler, Germany, 7-6 (3), 6-2.