Estoril Open: Day 1

Top-seed Gilles Simon advanced and had a routine win over American Robert Kendrick. He now awaits the winner of the Gaudio-Fognini match.

The match of the day was Chilean Paul Capdeville’s upset over fifth-seed David Nalbandian. The Chilean took down Nalbandian pretty easily 6-2 6-2 after 52 minutes of play.

The Argentine has been battling a hip injury over the last two weeks. “My preparation coming to Estoril was as good as possible but limited due to my ongoing injury,” said Nalbandian. “I did everything I could to recover on time to play this tournament, and I believe I arrived in the best shape possible given the circumstances."

Capdeville moves into the next round and will play Maximo Gonzalez, another Argentinian. The two players have never met in ATP competition. The Chilean was not so lucky in doubles. He and partner Ivan Navarro lost to the third-seeds Frantisek Cermak and Michal Mertinak in straight sets 6-3 6-2.


Sunday’s Results
Singles First Round
Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) def. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 6-4 6-3

Monday’s Results And Now The Qualifiers Are . . .
Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) def. Michael Yani (USA) 6-3 7-5
Ricardo Hocevar (BRA) def. Gastao Elias (POR) 6-4 6-7(3) 7-6(3)
Pablo Cuevas (URU) def. Ricado Mello (BRA) 7-6(5) 6-1
Ryan Sweeting (USA) def. Leonardo Tavares (POR) 6-3 2-6 6-4

Singles First Round
1 WC Gilles Simon (FRA) def. Robert Kendrick (USA) 6-3 7-6(7)
Paul Capdeville (CHI) def. 5 David Nalbandian (ARG) 6-2 6-2 6
Mardy Fish (USA) def. Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) 6-3 6-4
Oscar Hernandez (ESP) def. WC Rui Machado (POR) 7-5 1-6 7-5
Marc Gicquel (FRA) def. Pablo Andujar (ESP) 7-6(6) 6-4

Doubles First Round
3 F. Cermak (CZE)/M. Mertinak (SVK) def. Alt. P. Capedeville (CHI)/I. Navarro 6-3 6-2

Tuesday’s Matches
Singles First Round
2 Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) vs. Andrey Golubev (KAZ)
3 David Ferrer (ESP) vs. Daniel Gimeno-Traver (ESP)
7 Albert Montanes (ESP) vs. Q Ryan Sweeting (USA)
8 Florent Serra (FRA) vs. Diego Junqueira (ARG)
Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) vs. Q Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ)
Juan Monaco (ARG) vs. Q Pablo Cuevas (URU)
Ivan Navarro (ESP) vs. Albert Martin (ESP)
Simon Greul (GER) vs. Q Ricardo Hocevar (BRA)

Doubles First Round
4 M. Damm (CZE)/R. Lindstedt (SWE) vs. O. Hernandez (ESP)/A. Montanes (ESP)
WC F. Gil (POR)/R. Machado (POR) vs. M. Fish (USA)/D. Martin (USA)

Tuesday’s Order of Play

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