CASABLANCA, Morocco, April 24 (UPI) -- Fifth-seeded Frenchman Arnaud Clement and sixth-seeded Austrian Jurgen Melzer were among Day-1 winners Monday in the Grand Prix Hassan II in Morocco.
Clement defeated last year's Casablanca runner-up Juan Monaco 6-4, 6-1, while Melzer beat Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. Monaco lost to 2005 French Open runner-up Mariano Puerta in last year's all-Argentine finale here.
Fourth-seeded Italian Andreas Seppi was upset Monday by German Bjorn Phau 7-6 (7-4), 6-1.
Additional opening-round wins came for Italian Alessio Di Mauro, Frenchman Nicolas Mahut, Czech Jiri Vanek and Algerian qualifier Slimane Saoudi. Mahut will meet his compatriot Clement in the round of 16.
This week's top seed, Chilean Nicolas Massu, plays German Michael Berrer on Tuesday.
