ROUNDUP Monday’s events

Swimming: Katie Hoff knows exactly how bummed the French are. She built a big lead in the 400 freestyle, but touched 0.07 after Britain’s Rebecca Adlington. After two of her five individual races, Hoff has a silver and a bronze — the amount she expected, but not necessarily the right color. “I got a bronze yesterday and a silver this morning. If I keep climbing at this pace, I’ll be happy,” said Hoff, who has three more individual events, plus a relay. In other morning action, American Christine Magnuson finished second in the 100-meter butterfly; American Brendan Hansen had the agony of finishing fourth in the 100-meter backstroke and the added disappointment of losing his world record to winner Japan’s Kosuke Kitajima; and Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe set a world record in the 100-meter backstroke semifinals. At night, Italy’s Federica Pellegrini set a world record in the 200 freestyle preliminaries.

Tennis: It sounds like the opening round of a major: Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and the Williams sisters all advanced. Nadal won his Olympic singles debut, beating Italy’s Potito Starace 6-2, 3-6, 6-2, and Federer beat Russia’s Dmitry Tursunov 6-4, 6-2, then received congratulations from one of the spectators — LeBron James. Venus Williams, playing her first match since winning Wimbledon, beat Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky 6-3, 6-2 and showed no sign of the knee injury that sidelined her in recent weeks. Serena Williams finished out her weather-suspended match against Belarus’ Olga Govortsova. Her sister, seeded fourth, won all four games when her match resumed after an overnight rain interruption, and she beat Olga Govortsova of Belarus, 6-3, 6-1. Third-seeded Novak Djokovic beat Robby Ginepri of the United States 6-4, 6-4. American Sam Querrey lost to Igor Andreev of Russia 6-4, 6-4, leaving James Blake as the only man to make the second round for the U.S. team in singles. Nicolas Massu of Chile opened his bid to repeat as Olympic champion by beating Steve Darcis of Belgium 6-4, 7-5. No. 5 David Ferrer and No. 6 Andy Murray were eliminated.

Weightlifting: Don’t mess with Chinese weightlifters. Chen Yanqing broke two Olympic records en route to her second straight gold medal in the women’s 58-kilogram category, making the host country 3-for-3 thus far. “In 2004, I won the gold medal for myself. Today, I won it for all my supporters and fans,” the 29-year-old said. Zhang Xiangxiang won the men’s 62-kilogram division, upping China to 4-for-4.

Diving: Like Michael Phelps, the Chinese divers are aiming for eight. Lin Yue and Huo Liang won the men’s 10-meter synchronized title, while the American tandem of David Boudia and Thomas Finchum slipped from third after four rounds to a fifth-place finish.

Women’s basketball: Russia edged South Korea 77-72; Belarus topped Latvia 80-57; and Spain defeated New Zealand 85-62.

Volleyball: The U.S. women’s team lost to Cuba in three sets. The good news: Barbara Bachman, the mother of 2004 Olympian Elisabeth Bachman McCutcheon and the mother-in-law of U.S. men’s coach Hugh McCutcheon, has had her condition upgraded to stable after being stabbed by the attacker who also killed her husband and then himself. U.S. setter Lindsey Berg said she wasn’t sure if the tragedy played into Monday’s loss, but said “it has been an emotionally draining 48 hours.” “We are extremely grateful for the outpouring of assistance and generosity that we have received and hope to convey our appreciation to everyone who has supported us and kept us in their thoughts and prayers,” the McCutcheons wrote in an open letter.

Boxing: A fluke of a draw produced a rematch of last year’s featherweight world championship finals. Speed and savvy produced a different outcome, with Ukraine’s Vasyl Lomachenko beating Albert Selimov of Russia 14-7. American Raynell Williams easily won his opener 9-1 over Italy’s Alessio di Savino, improving the U.S. team to 3-1 before lightweight Sadam Ali’s evening bout. Alexey Tishchenko, Russia’s gold-medal featherweight in Athens, opened his attempt to add a lightweight gold to his collection with a 10-2 win over Tunisia’s Saifeddine Nejmaoui.

Trap shooting: Corey Cogdell, a 21-year-old Alaskan, won a four-way shoot-off for bronze in women’s trap shooting. Finland’s Satu Makela-Nummela hit an Olympic-record 21 targets to take the gold.

Rowing: The American women’s eight crew is headed to the finals after winning its heat. The men’s eight was second in its heat, dropping it into a second-chance race Tuesday in hopes of making the final; three guys are back from the crew that won the first U.S. gold medal in 40 years in that event at Athens.

Canoe-Kayak: In whitewater slalom singles, 19-year-old Benn Fraker finished 10th and advanced to the semifinals, but 29-year-old Scott Parsons missed a gate at the end of a strong run and was 20th in the single kayak and is done. Parsons was America’s best hope for a whitewater medal in the K-1, or one-man kayak class, which has historically been dominated by Europeans.

Water polo: The U.S. women’s team, with 10 first-time Olympians, overcame a shaky start to beat host China 12-11 in preliminary play. In other preliminary action, Hungary beat the Netherlands 11-9, defending gold medalist Italy defeated reigning European champion Russia 9-8 and 2000 gold medalist Australia knocked off Greece 8-6.

Associated Press