Larsson puts out Safin

hong kong: russian marat safin and mark philippoussis of australia were bumped out of the $400,000 salem open when they lost their second-round matches. second seed safin was beaten 2-6, 6-3, 4-6 by swede magnus larsson while fifth seed philippoussis lost 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, 3-6 to germany's rainer schuettler. larsson, ranked in the top 10 back in 1995 but now langushing at 111, held his nerve in the deciding set, saving two break points while serving for the match at 5-4.but he was aided by a fortunate call when a ball hit wide of the sideline was called in by the linesman. philippoussis, who made a comeback from his knee injury, was defeated by schuettler, who won in shanghai last week. in other second round matches, third seed sebatsien grosjean of france beat chile's nicolas massu 7-6 (7/2), 3-6, 6-4, while brazilian andre sa defeated michel kratochvil of switzerland 7-5, 6-4. portas, sanchez advance: no 3 seeded albert portas of spain outlasted argentina's jose acasuso in three sets to advance to the quarter-finals of the $400,000 atp tournament in palermo. portas won the first-set tiebreaker 7-2 on his way to a 7-6, 4-6, 6-3 victory. later spain's david sanchez beat another argentine when seventh-seeded franco squillari had to retire while trailing 6-3, 2-0. the night match featured one more spain-argentina duel as top-seeded spaniard alex corretja was slated to take on marian zabaleta. two spaniards, galo blanco and felix mantilla, faced off for the other quarter-final slot. kournikova beaten: anna kournikova made her long-awaited return from injury but it ended in defeat as she lost to fellow russian anastasia myskina at the $565,000 wta tournament in leipzig. myskina took advantage of her glamorous rival's bundle of unforced errors to win 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. kournikova, ranked 20 in the world, has been out of action for three months with a stress fracture in her left foot, which she originally injured during a practice session in late february. leipzig title holder, belgian kim clijsters, moved on with a 6-3, 6-3 success over italy's francesca schiavone. yugoslav third seed jelena dokic slid to a shock defeat to slovakian qualifier daniela hantuchova, who recovered from a slow start to win 4-6, 7-6 (8/6), 6-0. dokic crumbled after losing the second set tiebreak. germany's anke huber, who will retire at the end of the year, lost out against anne kremer of luxembourg 6-4, 6-4.