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AMSTERDAM, June 20: Top seed Tommy Robredo eased past Dutchman Michel Koning 6-4, 7-6 in the first round of the Den Bosch Open on Tuesday, but fellow Spanish seed Juan Carlos Ferrero suffered an early exit.
In the women's event, Serbian second seed Ana Ivanovic and third seed Anna Chakvetadze of Russia booked their places in the third round after two-set wins.
Former French Open champion Ferrero, ranked 18th in the world and seeded fifth here, was humbled 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 by Argentine Carlos Berlocq, who is ranked 94th.
Sixth seed Juan Ignacio Chela was disposed of 6-4, 6-4 by France's Julien Benneteau at the grasscourt tournament.
Argentina's Guillermo Canas, the third seed, saw off Ernests Gulbis from Latvia 7-6, 7-5.
Ivanovic beat Greece's Eleni Daniilidou 7-6, 6-2, while Chakvetadze triumphed 6-4, 7-6 over Italian Francesca Schiavone in second-round matches.
Tuesday’s results (prefix number denotes seeding):
Men’s singles:
First round: 1-Tommy Robredo (Spain) beat Michel Koning (Netherlands) 6-4, 7-6 (7-4); Sergio Roitman (Argentina) beat 7-Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) 6-2, 0-0 – Kohlschreiber retired; Carlos Berlocq (Argentina) beat 5-Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spain) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; Yves Allegro (Switzerland) beat Kristian Pless (Denmark)
7-6 (7-4), 3-6, 6-4; Lukas Dlouhy (Czech Republic) beat Danai Udomchoke (Thailand) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; 3-Guillermo Canas (Argentina) beat Ernests Gulbis (Latvia) 7-6 (7-5), 7-5; Julien Benneteau (France) beat 6-Juan Ignacio Chela (Argentina) 6-4, 6-4; Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) beat 8-Marc Gicquel (France) 6-4, 6-2; Michael Berrer (Germany) beat Diego Hartfield (Argentina) 6-3, 6-0.
Women’s singles:
Second round: 3-Anna Chakvetadze (Russia) beat Francesca Schiavone (Italy) 6-4, 7-6 (7-3); Flavia Pennetta (Italy) beat Tatjana Malek (Germany) 6-0, 6-4; 2-Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) beat Eleni Daniilidou (Greece) 7-6 (7-4), 6-2; 8-Alona Bondarenko (Ukraine) beat Roberta Vinci (Italy) 7-6 (7-4), 6-3.
First round: Meilen Tu (US) beat Kaia Kanepi (Estonia) 5-7, 6-2, 7-5; Angelique Kerber (Germany) beat Chan Yung-Jan (Taiwan) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; 5-Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia) beat Olga Poutchkova (Russia) 6-2, 6-1; 4-Dinara Safina (Russia) beat Camille Pin (France) 6-3, 5-7, 6-3.
NOTTINGHAM (England): Briton Tim Henman finally rediscovered some form with a 6-1, 7-6 victory over American Michael Russell in the first round of the Nottingham Open on Tuesday, his first Tour win since February.
The 32-year-old former world No 4 took advantage of some ragged play by his 69th ranked opponent to take the first set with ease on the slick grass courts.
The second set was much tighter after the players traded service breaks in the first two games as Henman's lack of confidence betrayed him at times.
He had enough experience to edge the tiebreak and clinch a morale-boosting victory just six days before the start of Wimbledon where he has been a semi-finalist four times.
In other play, dangerous Croatian seventh seed Ivo Karlovic banged down 10 aces on his way to a 6-3, 7-6 defeat of Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka and Frenchman Arnaud Clement, seeded eight, beat Swede Thomas Johansson 7-5, 6-2.
Tuesday’s results:
First round: Amer Delic (US) beat Justin Gimelstob (US) 6-4, 6-4; 2-Dmitry Tursunov (Russia) beat Robert Kendrick (US) 6-1, 6-4; 4-Jonas Bjorkman (Sweden) beat Richard Bloomfield (Britain) 6-2, 6-0; 6-Paul-Henri Mathieu (France) beat Robby Ginepri (US) 6-3, 6-4; Igor Kunitsyn (Russia) beat 3-Agustin Calleri (Argentina) 7-6 (10-8), 3-6, 6-4; Tim Henman (Britain) beat Michael Russell (US) 6-1, 7-6 (7-5); Lee Hyung-Taik (South Korea) beat Max Mirnyi (Belarus) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; Jan Vacek (Czech Republic) beat Nicolas Lapentti (Ecuador) 7-6 (7-1), 6-3; Ivo Karlovic (Croatia) beat 7-Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) 6-3, 7-6 (7-3); Juan Martin Del Potro (Argentina) beat Jamie Baker (Britain) 6-4, 6-2; 8-Arnaud Clement (France) beat Thomas Johansson (Sweden) 7-5, 6-2; Teimuraz Gabashvili (Russia) beat Joshua Goodall (Britain) 7-5, 6-3; Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spain) beat Alex Bogdanovic (Britain) 6-4, 7-6 (15-13).
EASTBOURNE (England): Sixth seeded Israeli Shahar Peer battled through a tough first match at the Eastbourne International on Tuesday against an injured but determined Elena Likhovtseva.
Peer won 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 in a first-round match that lasted two-and-a-half hours.
Eighth and ninth seeds Marion Bartoli and Sybille Bammer enjoyed a much easier day, winning through to the second round with identical scores of 6-2, 6-3 over Tathiana Garbin and Maria Kirilenko respectively.
Peer, a quarter-finalist at the Australian Open in January, will now play Japan's Aiko Nakamura who beat Aravane Rezai of France 6-1, 6-4.
Tuesday’s results:
First round: Mara Santangelo (Italy) beat Ai Sugiyama (Japan) 7-6 (7-3), 6-3; Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) beat Jill Craybas (US) 6-2, 5-7, 6-0; Katie O'Brien (Britain) beat Vasilisa Bardina (Russia) 7-5, 6-3; 9-Sybille Bammer (Austria) beat Maria Kirilenko (Russia) 6-2, 6-3; 8-Marion Bartoli (France) beat Tathiana Garbin (Italy) 6-2, 6-3; Nathalie Dechy (France) beat Akiko Morigami (Japan) 6-4, 2-6, 6-3; 6-Shahar Peer (Israel) beat Elena Likhovtseva (Russia) 6-2, 5-7, 6-4; Elena Baltacha (Britain) beat Anne Keothavong (Britain) 6-2, 2-6,
7-6 (7-5); Aiko Nakamura (Japan) beat Aravane Rezai (France) 6-1, 6-4.—Reuters
