Fourth-seeded Tommy Haas of Germany needed a tiebreaker to beat American wild card Devin Britton 6-4, 7-6 (3) in the first round of the SAP Open Tuesday. “His serve was working really well for him; not only really hard but with good placement and I could not get a good read on it,” Haas said. “Also serving and volleying on second serve and mixing it up, that really surprised me. I played good at the times I needed.” Eighth-seeded Jeremy Chardy's losing streak extended to six matches on tour when the Frenchman was eliminated by Bjorn Phau of Germany 6-3, 6-1. German Philipp Kohlschreiber rallied to beat American Rajeev Ram 6-7 (7), 6-1, 6-3, while American Michael Russell, who played in his first professional tournament two years ago when he was 15, beat lucky loser Im Kyu-tae of South Korea 7-6 (8), 6-1. Lithuanian teenager Ricardas Berankis, the former junior No. 1, beat American Robby Ginepri 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3 and Benjamin Becker of Germany topped Tim Smyczek of America 6-4, 6-2. American Mardy Fish withdrew from his singles match because of a left knee injury, but plans to remain in the doubles draw with Sam Querry. Ferrero, Andreev win In Brazil, top-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrero won his first match of the year in a two-hour struggle with Argentina's Eduardo Schwank 7-6 (4), 6-3 at the Brazil Open Tuesday. Ferrero, who'd made opening-round exits at Auckland and the Australian Open, had to break Schwank four times just to win the second set. The Argentine reached the quarterfinals last week at Santiago. Ferrero, the 2007 runner-up, moved onto a second-round clash with another veteran, Chile's Nicolas Massu, the 2006 champion who took nearly three hours to beat Brazilian qualifier Rogerio Dutra Da Silva 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. Thomaz Bellucci, fresh from his second career title on Sunday in Santiago, hit 10 aces in beating Brazilian countryman Thiago Alves 6-2, 7-5. Fourth-seeded Igor Andreev also posted his first win of 2010 after two defeats when he beat Potito Starace of Italy 6-2, 6-2. Sixth-seeded Pablo Cuevas won 6-4, 6-3 against Filippo Volandri of Italy, and Juan Ignacio Chela was pushed all the way by Peter Luczak of Australia to win 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-4. Dementieva in quarters Top-seeded Elena Dementieva beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-4, 6-4 in an all-Russian matchup to reach the quarterfinals of the Open GDF Suez in Paris Wednesday along with Tathiana Garbin of Italy. Garbin got the better of the eighth-seeded Elena Vesnina of Russia 6-4, 2-6, 6-2. In Wednesday's remaining first round matches, Croatian wild card Petra Martic upset the third-seeded Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, and Rezai defeated Evgeniya Rodina of Russia 6-4, 6
