Ferreira triumphs over Mark

Australia's Mark Philippoussis, the most dangerous wild card at Wimbledon, was beaten by South African 10th seed Wayne Ferreira, 7-6, 4-6, 7-6 in the Stella Artois tournament today.

Philippoussis beat Britain's Greg Rusedski in the second round but lost the third set tie-break 7-5 to Ferreira, the 1992 Stella champion, who now faces Raemon Sluiter of the Netherlands in the quarter-finals.

Ninth seed Todd Martin defeated Xavier Malisse 7-5, 6-3. Malisse defeated Tim Henman at the French Open but found the 31-year-old Martin too wily on grass and the American faces Lleyton Hewitt in the quarter-finals.

Henman could solve the problem of who should play the opening match at Wimbledon although he would prefer to bring the curtain down at the championships by lifting the men's singles trophy.

Henman was facing American Robby Ginepri in the third round at Queen's today.

Meanwhile, Pete Sampras lost 6-3, 6-4 in the second round of the Gerry Weber Open to Germany's Nicolas Kiefer.