Marach Marvelous at ATP Kitzbuhel

Austrian wildcard Oliver Marach delivered about as much excitement as you can expect on a seedless-watermelon opening day at the ATP claycourt stop in Kitzbuhel, to the delight of the home crowd coming from a set down to defeat bad Czech Tomas Zib 3-6, 7-5, 6-2.

"It's a great feeling to play in Austria and to be in the second round," said Marach after overcoming some early choking. "For me it's a problem that I haven't played very many big tournaments lately, and therefore I get very nervous in the first match."

Other un-seeds into the second round were Germans Florian Mayer (d. Monaco from a set down, saving a match point) and Tomas Behrend (d. Ventura), Italian Alessio Di Mauro (d. Sluiter), and Czech Robin Vik (d. (Q) Luczak).

Fans get another seedless-orange Tuesday in Kitzbuhel with match-ups Kohlschreiber vs. the former French Open champ "Brother" Al Costa, (Q) Vemic vs. (WC) Hipfl, (Q) Armando vs. Koubek, Tabara vs. (WC) Koellerer, last week's Amersfoort finalist Calleri vs. (WC) N.Lapentti, D.Sanchez vs. Rainer "Shine" Schuettler, Fernando "Hot Sauce" Verdasco vs. Seppi, Haehnel vs. Zabaleta, (Q) Ramirez Hidalgo vs. (Q) Irakli "Freak Show" Labadze, (Q) Schukin vs. Minar, and Sabau vs. Almagro.