The 36-year-old, who is on the board of directors for his home tournament, surged into the lead with a six-under 65 on Sunday but Matteson -- who had led from the first round -- made up for a double bogey at 15 as he eagled 17 and forced the playoff with his 69.
They ranked 30th in the league in total offense last season, on their way to a 6-10 record, yet new general manager John Idzik used those two first-round picks to beef up the Jets' already-respectable defense, selecting Alabama cornerback Dee Milliner and Missouri defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson.
The Spaniard was the only seed to fall in the first round, while Taylor Dent, ranked 83rd in the world, set up a second-round encounter against world number one Rafael Nadal after beating Feliciano Lopez 6-3 6-2.
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Instead the Islanders counter-attacked effectively all night, providing the Penguins with an ugly reminder of their first-round collapse against Philadelphia last spring when the Flyers lit them up for 30 goals in six games.
Immunisation rates today are 85% and rising, and the government is running a catch-up programme for those who missed their jabs the first time round.
Surely the lesser candidates lining up to run in the first round, in April, of the two-round contest have the right to dream.
Sittingbourne had been angered in the build-up to this first qualifying round local derby by Dartford boss Tony Burman's decision to rotate his squad.
"We must learn from the mistakes, " said Legg, whose side went out at the first qualifying round, following up a superb 1-0 away win with a 3-0 home defeat.
The Liberty won a first-round series in 2004, knocking out the then-defending champs on a buzzer-beater in the decisive Game 3, but then came up short in hard-fought three-game series in the first round in 2007 and the conference semifinals in 2008 during the Shock's run to their last title.
And Krug, who's played three NHL games in the past two seasons, was brought up from Providence on Tuesday after Seidenberg lasted just 37 seconds in the first-round finale over Toronto.
With the victory, the Nets moved closer to wrapping up fourth place in the Eastern Conference and clinching home-court advantage in the first round.
The Belgium-Netherlands bid picked up four votes in the first round and two in the second.
Four teams did not have first-round picks, but stepped up in the second round to start filling their needs.
Stosur, who had nine double-faults and 56 unforced errors, has never gone beyond the fourth round at her home Grand Slam, lost in the first round last year and also lost in her first matches at warm-up tournaments this year in Brisbane and Sydney.
They took up the roles after the team's first-round elimination in the 2007 one-day World Cup.
The Australian ended up in a tie for fourth on 288 with first-round leader Lee Slattery (76) and his fellow Englishman Marcus Higley (77), American Nathan Smith (71), Denmark's Jacob Olesen (68) and Martin Erlandsson of Sweden (76).
Both teams wrapped up their first-round series Friday night, the Knicks' victory in Game 6 in Boston giving them their first series victory in 13 years and sending them on to face a familiar postseason foe in Indiana, which ousted Atlanta.
Stepanek, Novak and doubles pair Cyril Suk and Martin Damm will team up for the Czechs against Russia in the Davis Cup first-round tie starting on 7 February.
The Australian won their first-round encounter 4-6 7-5 6-2 to set up a meeting with Russian veteran Yevgeny Kafelnikov in round two.
While playing for Cleveland, James led squads to first-round sweeps in 2007 and 2009, but never held up the Larry O'Brien trophy.
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Lundqvist gave up 12 total goals in the first five games of the first-round series versus the Capitals before shutting them out in Games 6 and 7.
Pittsburgh general manager Ray Shero gave up the rights to a couple of prospects and a 2013 first-round draft pick to grab Iginla, a future Hall of Famer still searching for his first championship after 16 seasons in western Canada.
Chandler also made 72% of his shots near the rim last year, which is a significant improvement on the Knicks' low-post game: In last season's first-round playoff defeat to the Boston Celtics, the team took 17 shots while posting up near the basket and made just two of them.
Defending champion Federer meets Australia's Peter Luczak in the first round, but could face his fellow Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, last-year's runner-up Robin Soderling, Latvia's in-form Ernests Gulbis and Murray en route to the final.
She picked up the problem in practice at Wimbledon and had to withdraw after winning her first-round match.
Give him a big round of applause. (Applause.) He and Kathleen make up the first father-daughter pair of governors in the United States.
The world No. 7, last year's runner-up to Amelie Mauresmo, has a first-round bye and will begin her title bid against Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic or fellow Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who meet on Tuesday.
In the ATP tournament in Nice, Richard Gasquet warmed up for his first round encounter at Roland Garros with Andy Murray by claiming the title with a 6-3 5-7 7-6 win over Spain's Fernando Verdasco.
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