Tuesday in Hamburg

In Hamburg the days are a lot busier than in the other tournaments as there is 5 singles match each day on central court.

Tuesday 3 of them was counting for the first round, first up was Janko Tipsarevic against one the 6 German in the final draw, Andreas Beck. Beck played well and took his chances and clinched the first set, before the Serb tight up his game and closed out the match with a 3-6 6-3 6-1 victory.

In the same time Llodra who beat Guillermo Canas in the first round got only 2 games in his 6-2 6-0 loss against Fernando Verdasco of Spain. And his doubles team-mate was playing against former n°1 Carlos Moya, he also lost but in a thrilling match which went to a deciding tie-break which Moya won 9 points to 7, for a 3-6 6-4 7-6 victory. The Frenchmen later that day teamed up to win their first round in the doubles tournament.

After Nieminen won his match against the German Rainer Schuettler very comfortably 6-1 6-3, another German was on the court for his first round match against Tommy Robredo the 13th seed. The German who won his maiden ATP title last year in Munich was trying to get a big win. He was playing really solid tennis in the first set and a half. And when he had a break point opportunity for the German in the middle of the 2nd set, Robredo's ball was called long after 2 or 3 overruled and after the ATP supervisor Tom Barnes came 2 times on the court to discuss what should be done, they decided to replay the point. This discussion stopped the German’s momentum and in tie-break Robredo was able to stay focus, then the 3rd set and the match came to the Spaniard. Final score 2-6 7-6 6-3.

The two other matches was for the 2nd round, and there was no real battle as Nikolay Davydenko the n°4 seed beat the Croat Ivan Ljubicic for the first time since Monte-Carlo 2004 Masters Series. And then Richard Gasquet the n°8 seed was up against the Italian Andreas Seppi, and with no battle Seppi beat the Frenchman 6-3 6-2. The Frenchman didn't find his rhythm in this clay court season, with a 10-10 record this season and 1-3 on clay, he doesn't have the result of a top 10 player so far this year. He didn't pass the Round of16 yet this year.

In the M1 court, the new World n°10 and recent finalist in Rome last week was playing against Spaniard Alberto Martin who qualified for the main draw. The Swiss n°2 had no trouble at all in this match and with a 6-3 6-3 victory he will next face German Nicolas Kiefer.