Peer sneaks past Likhovtseva at Eastbourne

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06/19/2007 - Eastbourne, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sixth-seeded Israeli Shahar Peer highlighted Tuesday's first-round winners at the $600,000 International Women's Open, a final Wimbledon tune-up.

Peer held off Russian qualifier Elena Likhovtseva 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 on the grass courts at Devonshire Park International Tennis Centre. Peer's second-round opponent here on Wednesday will be Japan's Aiko Nakamura.

In other action involving seeds, No. 9 Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli blew past Italian Tathiana Garbin 6-2, 6-3 and No. 9 Austrian Sybille Bammer blasted Russian Maria Kirilenko by an identical 6-2, 6-3 score.

Additional Day-2 wins came for Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, British qualifiers Elena Baltacha and Katie O'Brien, France's Nathalie Dechy, the qualifier Nakamura and Italian Mara Santangelo. Radwanska dropped American lucky-loser Jill Craybas 6-2, 5-7, 6-0.

This week's top seeds are Wimbledon runner-up and reigning three-time French Open champion Justine Henin and Wimbledon titlist Amelie Mauresmo. The Belgian Henin, who beat Russian Anastasia Myskina in last year's Eastbourne finale, will face Radwanska here on Wednesday, while Mauresmo will encounter Santangelo.

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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.

But Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao said in a recent interview with The Freeman's Emmanuel Villaruel that De La Hoya will win by unanimous decision over Mayweather.

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