Unseeded Romanian
Andrei Pavel continued No. 4 seed
Marcos Baghdatis' season slide in the first round of the ATP grasscourt event at Halle Monday, defeating the Cypriot 7-6(5), 6-3.
Baghdatis has yet to win a career match on grass.
Seeded winners Monday were (3)
Jarkko Nieminen (d. Kohlschreiber), (7)
Olivier Rochus (d. Waske from set down), and (8)
Kristof Vliegen (d. Wawrinka).
Winners in all-unseeded matches were Czech
Jiri Novak (d. Pashanski), Italy's
Andreas Seppi (d. countryman Sanguinetti), and Swede
Robin Soderling (d. Schuettler).
Highlights of Tuesday play are (Q) Bastl vs. Gasquet, the former No. 1 Safin vs. Serra, Simon vs. (6) Haas, (5) Berdych vs. (Q) B.Becker, and Fabrice "The Magician" Santoro vs. Youzhny.
