UPDATE 1-Tennis-Los Angeles International second round resultsJuly 29 (Reuters) - Los Angeles International men's singles second round matches on Thursday (prefix denotes seeding; * indicates new result): * 1-Andy Murray (Britain) beat Tim Smyczek (U.S.) 6-1 4-6 6-2 * James Blake (U.S.) beat Benjamin Becker (Germany) 7-5 7-6(5)

UPDATE 1-Tennis-Early exit for Gulbis, Murray battles through* Murray battles past qualifier to reach last eight (Updates with Murray win)

Tennis-Sharapova, Bartoli reach Stanford quarter-finalsSTANFORD, California July 29 (Reuters) - Holder Marion Bartoli advanced to the quarter-finals of the Stanford Classic on Thursday with a 6-3 6-4 win over former world number one Ana Ivanovic, while Maria Sharapova also advanced to the last eight.

UPDATE 1-Tennis-Stanford Classic second round resultsJuly 29 (Reuters) - Stanford Classic women's singles second round results on Thursday (prefix denotes seeding, * new result): * 4-Marion Bartoli (France) beat Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) 6-3 6-4 5-Maria Sharapova (Russia) beat Olga Govortsova (Belarus) 6-3 6-3 8-Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) beat Melanie Oudin (U.S.) 6-3 6-1 Maria Kirilenko (Russia) beat 6-Shahar Peer (Israel) 6-4 6-3 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports; Editing by John O'Brien; To query on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuter

UPDATE 3-Tennis-Gstaad International men's second round resultsJuly 29 (Reuters) - Gstaad International men's singles second round results from Switzerland on Thursday (prefix denotes seeding, * denotes new result). *2-Nicolas Almagro (Spain) beat Michael Lammer (Switzerland) 3-6 6-3 6-2 Jeremy Chardy (France) beat Jarkko Nieminen (Finland) 7-5 6-2 Yuri Schukin (Kazakhstan) beat Frederico Gil (Portugal) 6-3 6-3 Igor Andreev (Russia) beat Marco Chiudinelli (Switzerland) 6-3 6-7(6) 7-6(6) 1-Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) beat Alexander Sadecky (Switzerland)

ANALYSIS-Sport-Spain's sporting boom shines amid economic gloomMADRID, July 29 (Reuters) - Spaniards celebrating a 'golden age' of sport must be wishing some of the unprecedented success would rub off on the economy and politicians could get some of the Iberian nation's four million jobless into work.

UPDATE 1-Tennis-Istanbul Cup women's second round resultsJuly 29 (Reuters) - Istanbul Cup women's singles second round results on Thursday (prefix denotes seeding, * new result). * Elena Baltacha (Britain) beat 1-Francesca Schiavone (Italy) 6-4 6-2 Jarmila Groth (Australia) beat Anna Lapushchenkova (Russia) 6-2 6-3 3-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) beat Magdalena Rybarikova (Slovakia) 6-3 6-2 Sorana Cirstea (Romania) beat Johanna Larsson (Sweden) 6-4 6-4

Tennis-Stosur, Dementieva advance to Stanford Classic quartersSTANFORD, California, July 28 (Reuters) - Top seeds Samantha Stosur and Elena Dementieva made solid starts to their Stanford Classic campaigns with contrasting second-round victories on Wednesday.

UPDATE 1-Tennis-Baghdatis shakes off losing run to triumph in LA* Second seed Querrey battles past Anderson (Updates with Querrey win)

UPDATE 2-Tennis-Los Angeles International resultsJuly 28 (Reuters) - Los Angeles International second-round results on Wednesday (prefix denotes seeding; * indicates new result) *2-Sam Querrey (U.S.) beat Kevin Anderson (South Africa) 7-6(8) 4-6 6-0 3-Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) beat Ryan Sweeting (U.S.) 3-6 6-2 6-3 6-Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) leads Somdev Devvarman (India) 7-6(9) 6-2 Rainer Schuettler (Germany) beat Robby Ginepri (U.S.) 6-3 3-6 6-4 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports; Editing by Peter Rutherford; To query or comment on this