Youzhny, Almagro win openers in Gstaad
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07/27/2010 -
Gstaad, Switzerland (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top seeds Mikhail Youzhny of Russia and
Nicolas Almagro of Spain were a pair of first-round winners Tuesday at the
Swiss Open.
Youzhny rolled past French lucky-loser Marc Gicquel 6-2, 6-2 in 72 minutes,
while Almagro held off fellow Spaniard Marcel Granollers 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 6-3
in 2 hours, 14 minutes on the clay courts at Roy Emerson Arena. Gicquel
entered the draw when Kazakhstan's Evgeny Korolev exited it with a back
injury.
Up next for Youzhny will be Swiss wild card Alexander Sadecky, while Almagro
will encounter a Swiss wild card of his own, Michael Lammer.
Last year's Gstaad titlist, Thomaz Bellucci, went by way of the upset on Day
3, as the third-seeded Brazilian was knocked out in three sets by heavy Swiss
crowd favorite Marco Chiudinelli, 7-6 (8-6), 0-6, 6-4, in 2 hours, 15 minutes.
Bellucci beat German Andreas Beck in last year's finale here.
Two other seeds exited the draw on Tuesday, as Spaniard Daniel Gimeno-Traver
tripped up No. 6 Romanian Victor Hanescu 6-4, 6-4 and Jeremy Chardy charged
past No. 8 fellow Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-1, 6-3. The struggling
Hanescu was the champion here two years ago, while Mathieu was the Gstaad
titlist in 2007.
The 2009 Gstaad runner-up Beck continued his recent success at this event with
a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Argentine wild card Agustin Velotti on Tuesday.
Two other opening-round matches saw Finn Jarkko Nieminen edge out Brazil's
Thiago Alves 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 and Kazakhstan's Yuri Schukin get past fellow
countryman Andrey Golubev 7-6 (7-4), 2-6, 6-3. The 23-year-old Golubev was
fresh off his first-ever ATP title, last week in Hamburg.
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