Tennis: Morocco's Karim Alami goes to French open 3rd round

Originally published May 31, 2001

Morocco's tennis player Karim Alami rolled Wednesday into the third round of the French Roland Garros tournament after a win over Israeli Harel Levy.

He will play Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten in the third round.

The two other Moroccans participating in the open, Hicham Arazi and Younes El Aynaoui, were ousted this Thursday at the second round respectively by Swedish Magnus Larsson (6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4) and German Lars Burgsmuller (7-5, 6-4, 7-5).

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