Top seeds head to quarterfinals in France

MONTPELLIER, France, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Top seeds Nikolay Davydenko and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga collected second-round wins Wednesday at the Sud de France Open tennis tournament.

Davydenko, seeded first, fought off Mischa Zverev 7-5, 6-3 by saving all 10 of the break-point situations Zverev caused. Davydenko lost 10 points on serve in the first set when he had to deal with seven break points.

The second-seeded Tsonga also didn't lose his serve as he made the quarterfinals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Frederico Gil. Tsonga had 11 aces but the difference in the match was that he won both break points he had against Gil.

Fifth-seeded John Isner fired 27 aces and took the only service break of the second-round match in the third set of a 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 victory over Adrian Mannarino.

The first round was completed Wednesday with Jarkko Nieminen getting past Florent Serra 6-7 (4-7), 7-5, 6-1; and Gilles Simon defeating Nicolas Mahut 6-4, 6-4.