Upsets in first round

BCR Open Romania : Round 1

In the first matches, it seems that there have been 2 upsets :

First of all, the last year's champion, Jurgen Melzer lost his match against Andreas Seppi (4-6 7-5 6-4). This was a tough match for Melzer against a very good player, probably the best player that is not amongst the seeds.

The other upset (it is not an actually upset, but you can call it that) is Florent Serra (the champion of 2005 here in Bucharest) retiring from his match against Evgeny Koroloev after winning the first set and being 6-5 down in the second.

It is nice to see that Gael Monfils was able to defeat Alberto Martin in a heavy disputed match in the thrid and final qualifying round, but is now facing another tough match, against Fillipo Volandri (the second seed and number 29 ATP).

We do have a couple of interesting matches programmed for today :
Andrei Pavel vs Oscar Hernandez
Potito Starace (3) vs Kristof Vliegen
and let's not forget about the Romanian Cataling Gard that made it to the main draw and is now facing Mark Giquel.

I will come back later with more news.


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