BUCHAREST, Romania, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Potito Starace posted an upset victory Monday in first-round play of the $525,000 BCR Open Romania clay-court tennis tournament.
Starace fired in 84 percent of his first serves and faced just three break points in the course of his 6-2, 6-4 defeat of seventh-seeded Marcel Granollers. Starace advanced to a second-round match with Florent Serra, who won the Bucharest tournament in 2005.