SANTIAGO, Chile: Juan Monaco, a two-time finalist in Santiago, was knocked out of the first round of the Movistar Open by fellow Argentine Maximo Gonzalez 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 Tuesday. Gonzalez, who had lost two previous matches to Monaco, needed two hours, 45 minutes to close out this one. In two other first-round matches, seventh-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy defeated Lukasz Kobot of Poland, 7-6 (6), 6-2, and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina beat Ricardo Hocevar of Brazil, 7-6 (2), 6-4. On Monday, defending champion Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil defeated Filippo Volandri of Italy 6-2, 6-2 in the first round. Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain beat Argentina's Leonardo Mayer 6-4, 6-4, Russian Igor Andreev downed Eduardo Schwank of Argentina 6-3, 7-6 (4), and Pablo Andujar of Spain defeated Australian Peter Luczak 6-4, 6-4. In other first-round matches, Brazil's Ricardo Mello won against Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo of Spain 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (6), and Spain's Tommy Robredo defeated Frederico Gil of Portugal 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Ivanisevic returns and loses In Croatia, former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic returned to professional tennis Tuesday in doubles play at the Zagreb Indoors, losing to Slovak opponents in the first round. The 39-year-old Ivanisevic and Croatia's top-ranked player Marin Cilic were beaten by Filip Polasek and Igor Zelenay of Slovakia, 7-6, 6-4. Ivanisevic said he was making a one-time return to professional tennis to promote the tournament in his home country. In the biggest upset so far at the tournament, Germany's Daniel Brands beat home favorite Ivo Karlovic 7-5, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (1) in the singles. Earlier, Radek Stepanek easily advanced to the second round of the Zagreb Indoors by beating Austrian qualifier Stefan Koubek 6-3, 6-2. Seventh-seeded Philipp Petzschner of Germany also advanced, defeating Jan Hajek of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-3, while Blaz Kavcic of Slovenia beat Mischa Zverev of Germany 6-2, 7-5. American Alex Bogomolov Jr. defeated Croat Antonio Veic, 2-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2), and Igor Kunitsyn from Russia advanced after beating Jaroslav Pospisil from the Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-2. Raonic flattens Lu In Johannesburg, Asian tennis star Yen-Hsun Lu from Taiwan crashed out of the South Africa Open in the opening round Tuesday after a 6-3, 6-3 defeat by Canadian Milos Raonic. Frenchman Stephane Robert was outplayed when falling 6-3, 6-2 to South African Izak van der Merwe. Others to reach the last 16 included seeds Kevin Anderson of South Africa, Adrian Mannarino of France and Michal Przysiezny of Poland plus Germans Dustin Brown and Denis Gremelmayr. On Monday, Simon Greul of Germany, Somdev Devvarman of India and South African wild card Rik de Voest all won first-round matches.
