Calleri, El Aynaoui land in Casablanca quarters

Tennis Betting Lines

05/20/2008 - Casablanca, Morocco (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Third-seeded Argentine Agustin Calleri and Moroccan veteran Younes El Aynaoui were among Tuesday's second-round winners at the $575,000 Grand Prix Hassan II tennis event.

Calleri advanced to his sixth quarterfinal of the year by handling Frenchman Olivier Patience 6-2, 7-5, while the 36-year-old El Aynaoui beat Slovakian Dominik Hrbaty 6-3, 7-5 at Complexe Sportif al Amal. The wild card El Aynaoui captured his home event in 2002.

The clay-court specialist Calleri and El Aynaoui will meet here on Thursday.

In other second-round action, fourth-seeded Frenchman Marc Gicquel held off former top-five star Guillermo Coria of Argentina 6-1, 2-6, 7-6 (7-2) and French qualifier Gilles Simon overcame Serbian Boris Pashanski 3-6, 6-4, 6-3. Gicquel and Simon will square off in an all-French quarterfinal.

On Wednesday, second-round matches will come for top seeds Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gael Monfils of France. The Australian Open runner-up Tsonga will meet Algerian wild card Lamine Ouahab, while Monfils will encounter Spaniard Oscar Hernandez, who topped Canadian Frank Dancevic 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) in a first-round bout that was suspended because of rain on Monday and completed on Tuesday.

Casablanca serves as a final tuneup for the French Open, which will get underway Sunday in Paris.

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Big 12 Conference betting odds

Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.