Youzhny, Simon win at German championships

HAMBURG, Germany, July 19 (UPI) -- Highly seeded players Mikhail Youzhny and Gilles Simon posted second-round wins Tuesday at the German Tennis Championships.

Youzhny, seeded fourth, slipped past Carlos Berlocq 7-5, 7-6 (9-7). There were no service breaks in the second set but Youzhny was able to get through by winning 70 percent of the points on serve.

Simon, the No. 5 seed, breezed by Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-2, 6-1 in 63 minutes. Two of the three games Simon lost came on service breaks, but he notched seven breaks in eight games against Stakhovsky.

A pair of German wild-card entrants collected second-round upsets with Tobias Kamke taking out seventh-seeded Juan Ignacio Chela 6-1, 6-4 and Julian Reister beating No. 14 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6 (7-5), 6-2. Jarkko Nieminen also used an upset to get to the third round, beating 10th-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.

Also in second-round play, 15th-seeded Fabio Fognini was a 6-1, 7-5 winner over Victor Crivoi.

The first round was completed Tuesday and only one of those six matches went three sets. Qualifier Marsel Ilhan topped Philipp Petzschner 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), in that result.

Other first-round winners were Radek Stepanek, Juan Monaco, Pablo Andujar, Cedrik-Marcel Stebe, Daniel Gimeno-Traver and Philipp Kohlschreiber.