PORTSCHACH, Austria, May 22 (UPI) -- Two-time defending champion Nikolay Davydenko and former world No. 1 Australian Lleyton Hewitt were winners Tuesday at the Hydo Group International.
Third-seeded Croat Ivan Ljubicic suffered a second-round upset at the final clay-court French Open tune-up. Peru's Luis Horna beat Ljubicic in 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.
Russian Davydenko defeated Spaniard Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 6-3, 6-0 in 79 minutes. Davydenko beat 2000 champion Andrei Pavel of Romania in last year's finale here and was the 2003 Prtschach runner-up to American Andy Roddick.
Up next for Davydenko will be Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti, a 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) victor over former French Open runner-up Martin Verkerk of the Netherlands. Lapentti won this tournament in 2002.
The fourth-seeded Hewitt beat Argentine Sergio Roitman 6-2, 6-2 to set up a second-round match with Italian Potito Starace.
