seeded Alex Bogomolov Jr. of Russia beat wild card Dino Marcan of Croatia 6-3, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Zagreb Indoors Tuesday. Another Russian, third-seeded Mikhail Youzhny, also advanced to the second round defeating 2008 champion Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine 6-4, 7-6 (4). Poland's Lukasz Kubot defeated Matteo Viola from Italy 6-2, 6-1, while two-time finalist Michael Berrer of Germany ousted Marco Chiudinelli from Switzerland 7-6 (3), 6-1. Berrer next faces top-seeded Croat Ivan Ljubicic. Top-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia beat Slovakia's Karol Beck 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3 Monday. Fifth-seeded Andreas Seppi from Italy also advanced, after beating Germany's Daniel Brands 6-4, 7-6 (1), while seventh-seeded Robin Haase prevailed over Croatia's Kristijan Mesaros 6-2, 6-3. Haase won 81 percent of his first serve points against the 23-year-old Mesaros, who was appearing in his first ATP tournament. Germany's Matthias Bachinger defeated Izak Van Der Merwe of South Africa, 6-3, 6-3, while another Slovak, Lukas Lacko, beat Italy's Potito Starace 7-6 (2), 6-7 (4), 6-3. Kohlschreiber moves up Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany beat Olivier Rochus of Belgium 6-1, 6-4 Tuesday to reach the second round of the Open Sud de France. Jarkko Nieminen of Finland also advanced to the second round. Maxime Teixeira of France saved 11 break points before losing to the eighth-seeded Nieminen 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Paul-Henri Mathieu, Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Nicolas Mahut also won. Mathieu beat Cedrik-Marcel Stebe of Germany 6-4, 6-4; Roger-Vasselin downed Roberto Bautista-Agut of Spain 7-5, 6-2, and Mahut was hardly troubled in his 6-3, 6-2 win against Albert Ramos of Spain.
