Melzer into Stuttgart QFs

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07/14/2010 - Stuttgart, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - French Open semifinalist Jurgen Melzer was a second-round victor Wednesday at the Mercedes Cup tennis event.

The second-seeded Melzer got past Germany's own Mischa Zverev, a wild card this week, 7-5, 7-5 on the red clay at TC Weissenhof.

The Austrian lefthander Melzer will face fifth-seeded Spaniard Albert Montanes in Friday's quarterfinals. Montanes fought his way past Argentine veteran Juan Ignacio Chela 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 on Day 3.

The German faithful were treated to a victory on Day 3 when Simon Greul upended seventh-seeded Frenchman Gilles Simon 6-4, 7-5.

Unseeded Argentine Horacio Zeballos was leading fourth-seeded former world No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero, of Spain, 7-6 (7-1), 6-6 when play was suspended because of darkness. The bout will resume here on Thursday.

Also on Thursday, top-seeded Russian star Nikolay Davydenko will open his stay in Stuttgart against Spain's Daniel Gimeno-Traver.

This week's top-four seeds all enjoyed opening-round byes.

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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and his rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived at the MGM Grand here Wednesday amid the pomp and pandemonium befitting two of the biggest stars in the sport who are about to duke it out for the WBC super welterweight crown this Saturday (Sunday in Manila).

As of Wednesday, MySportsbook.com closed its book with Mayweather a favorite to defeat De La Hoya at -170 (a $100 bet wins $70), while De La Hoya is a +140 underdog (a $100 bet wins $140).

Mayweather arrived at about 11:30 a.m. on a big truck with his face and a big "World's Best Pound-for-Pound" sign scribbled across the vehicle. He was accompanied by his entourage made up of rappers and his training team.

A crowd of close to 3,000 eager fans packed the MGM Grand lobby, with their cameras in tow, all trying to vie for position to get a good angle at Mayweather, who is acknowledged as the world's best fighter pound-for-pound.

Eric Gomez, Golden Boy Promotions vice-president, described the fan turnout as "amazing" and swore he had never seen anything quite like this event.

"The crowd was fantastic. Everybody was just too eager to see the two fighters," said ALA manager Michael Aldeguer, who was among those who waited at the lobby together with his ward Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista and AJ Banal.

De La Hoya made his own grand entrance at the hotel lobby at around 12:30 p.m. accompanied by GBP chief executive officer Richard Schaefer and trainer Freddie Roach.

The same group of fans who trooped to see Mayweather also lingered around to get a close look at De La Hoya, who has been secretly working out at a Las Vegas gym for days after arriving from his main training camp in Puerto Rico.

The golden boy then took part in a closed-door afternoon workout with Bautista and Banal. The two, along with Aldeguer and wife Christine, as well as an HBO crew were the only ones allowed inside the gym.

De La Hoya and Mayweather take part in today's final press conference before the official weigh-in this Friday.

Ring Magazine, the acknowledged bible of boxing, reported in its June 2007 issue that 12 out of 20 boxing experts it interviewed have favored Mayweather to defeat De la Hoya, with only 8 favoring the latter.

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