Men Tennis Update – Oeiras and Munich Monday April 29 2013

Written by: Staff on 29th April 2013

Men Tennis Update - Oeiras and Munich Monday April 29 2013

epa03614536 Daniel Brands of Germany returns a shot to Marcos Baghdatis of Cypress during their match at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells, California, USA, 07 March 2013. Brands won the match. EPA/PAUL BUCK |

OEIRAS

Spain’s David Ferrer takes the top seeding after being drafted in as a late replacement to ailing Argentine Juan Martin del Porto, suffering with a stomach virus but expected to play at next week’s Madrid Masters Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, semi-finalist a year ago in his Portuguese debut, is seeded second. The top four men’s seeds get byes into the second round.

The Swiss admitted he fancied his chances as he plays his second European event on clay after knocking Andy Murray out in Monte Carlo. “It’s my second year here and I am happy to be back. I hope to play well and keep improving my game and ranking this year.”

On court, French sixth seed Benoit Paire beat Igor Sijsling 7-6(5), 6-3 while compatriot Eduardo Roger-Vasselin advanced when Gilles Muller quit injured trailing 6-1.

Belgian David Goffin handed Portugal a home defeat as he beat Pedro Sousa 7-6(1), 4-6, 6-4 while Denis Istomin recovered in a win against Russian Evgeny Donskoy 2-6, 7-6(7), 6-4

MUNICH

A light open schedule saw Daniel Brands put out Tobias Kamke as a pair of Mermans met to start the clay event. Australian Marinko Matosevic took a win over Germany’s (No.372 Kevin Krawietz 6-2, 6-4 while Dmitry Tursunov, last week’s Barcelona upset winner over top seed David Ferrer, began with a victory against Paul-Henrio Mathieu 6-3, 6-4 to leave the Frenchman 0-8 at the ATP level this season.

Croatian Ivan Dodig (beat veteran Russian Nikolay Davydenko 6-4, 6-4

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