The dirtballers in Palermo found clay, but they also found rain Tuesday -- before the deluge No. 3 seed
Gilles Simon and No. 4
Nicolas Almagro both advanced into the second round.
Simon defeated
Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-0, 6-7(6), 6-2 while Almagro overwhelmed Austrian
Oliver Marach 6-1, 6-4.
Also beating the drops on Tuesdsay were Spaniard
Oscar Hernandez who beat
Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 6-1, 6-1, and
Jan Hajek, a 6-3, 7-6(2) victor over Czech countryman
Bohdan Ulihrach 6-3, 7-6(2).
