No. 3 seed Dominik Hrbaty (d. Ginepri) and No. 5 Taylor Dent (d. Popp) advanced in straight sets Monday at the ATP grasscourt stop in Nottingham during the last week of warm-up events before Wimbledon.
Wildcard
Jonathan Marray shouldered the British hopes for a late-round run Monday, defeating fellow Brit Alan MacKin in straight sets.
Other unseeded players into the second round were Slovak Karol Beck (d. Monfils in three), Denmark's
Kenneth Carlsen (d. (Q) Mankad 7-6 in the third), Korean Hyung-Taik Lee (d. A.Martin), Czech
Tomas Berdych (d. Ventura), and qualifiers
Jan Vacek (d. Mello) and 21-year-old American Travis Rettenmaier (d. Tipsarevic 7-6 in the third) with his career-first ATP win.
On tap for Tuesday are Zib vs. (4) Gasquet, (LL) Tursunov vs. (2) T.Johansson, (6) Paradorn "The Thai Fighter" Srichaphan vs. (Q) Hilton, (1) Ljubicic vs. Hanescu, "Dr."
Ivo Karlovic vs. Andreev, Sargis "Sarge" Sargsian vs. (8) Max "The Beast" Mirnyi, and K.Kim vs. (7) Olivier "The Roach" Rochus.
