Big Croatian Mario Ancic displayed his grasscourt credentials on Tuesday, dispatching ninth seed Fernando Verdasco 7-6, 6-4 in the second round of the Queen's Club ATP tournament. The 1.96 meter-tall Ancic looked perfectly at home on the swift green lawns of London's traditional Wimbledon warm-up tournament. Ancic's even loftier compatriot and eighth seed Ivo Karlovic, who stands 2.08 meters tall, had no problem dispatching Australian qualifier Joseph Sirianni 6-3, 6-2 but fellow Croatian Marin Cilic succumbed to seventh seed Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Briton Andy Murray enjoyed only two games before French opponent Sebastien Grosjean pulled out with a leg injury. Last year's runner-up to Roddick, Frenchman Nicolas Mahut labored late to upset 14th seed Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-7, 7-6 and Italian 12th seed Andreas Seppi beat Arnaud Clement 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 in the first round. Blake advances In Halle, American James Blake needed just 50 minutes to beat Germany's Bjorn Phau 6-4, 6-1 in the first round of the Halle Open on Tuesday. Other advancing to the round of 16 in the grass-court tournament that serves as a Wimbledon warm-up included Tommy Haas and Nicolas Kiefer of Germany, Russia's Mikhail Youzhny, France's Fabrice Santoro and Belgium's Steve Darcis. Four-time winner Roger Federer, who plays his first match on Wednesday against Germany's Michael Berrer, arrived in the western German town on Tuesday. Davydenko wins In Warsaw, top seeded Russian Nikolay Davydenko and Spaniard Tommy Robredo reached the second round of the Warsaw Open with straight-sets wins on Tuesday. Davydenko, the world number four, defeated Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay 6-3, 6-2, while second seed Robredo beat Poland's Michal Przysiezny 7-5, 6-2. Argentine fifth seed Guillermo Canas overwhelmed Peruvian Luis Horna 6-2, 6-7, 6-4 and number eight Albert Montanes of Spain beat Czech qualifier David Skoch 7-6, 6-4. Seeds fall In Birmingham, four seeded players went out of Wimbledon warmup DFS Classic on Tuesday. In the second round, fourth-seeded Sybille Bammer lost to British wild card Melanie South 6-3, 7-5, while No. 9 Tamira Paszek of Austria and 13th-seeded Aravane Rezai also lost. No. 16 Anastasia Rodionova was defeated in the first round. There were impressive wins for Virginia Ruano Pascual and Michaela Krajicek, the teenage sister of former Wimbledon champion Richard Kajicek. Vives on a high In Barcelona, unseeded Spaniard Nuria Llagostera Vives eliminated No. 1 Shahar Peer of Israel from the first round of the Torneo Barcelona on Tuesday, 7-5, 6
