Two Area Players Advance : Wimbledon: Sampras and Davenport score victories. Po, MacGregor and Tarango lose their singles matches.

And then there were two.

Five players with South Bay ties were in the men’s and women’s singles draws at Wimbledon, but three were first-round losers in the tournament, which began Monday.

Pete Sampras, a former Palos Verdes High standout who is the top-seeded player in the men’s draw, reached the third round with two victories. Lindsay Davenport, a 17-year-old former Chadwick High student, advanced with a 6-0, 4-6, 7-5 victory on Tuesday over Veronika Martinek of Germany. It was Davenport’s first match in the main draw after playing in the junior division last year.

Davenport, 28th on the Virginia Slims rankings, will play 27th-ranked Barbara Rittner of Germany in a second-round match today. Rittner defeated former USC player Linda Harvey-Wild, 6-0, 6-3, in a first-round match.

The three singles losers were Kimberly Po of Rolling Hills, who lost to Florencia Labat of Argentina, 7-5, 6-1; Cammy MacGregor, a 1987 Palos Verdes High graduate, who was eliminated by Katerina Kroupova of the Czech Republic, 6-4, 1-6, 7-5, and Jeff Tarango, a Manhattan Beach resident who was defeated by Marcos Ondruska of South Africa, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3. Tarango won the 1986 Southern Section singles title as a student at Mira Costa.

Po and MacGregor fared better in first-round doubles matches Wednesday. Po teamed with Shannon McCarthy, a former University of Georgia standout, for a 2-6, 7-5, 6-2 victory over Jenny Byrne and Nicole Pratt of Australia.

MacGregor and Shaun Stafford of Gainesville, Fla., teamed to oust Australians Justine Hodder and Angie Woolcock, 6-4, 6-7 (7-3), 6-2.

In a first-round men’s doubles match Tuesday, Jim Pugh of Rancho Palos Verdes and Brent Haygarth of the Central African Republic defeated Alexander Radulescu of Germany and Mikael Stadling of Sweden, 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2).