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Karlovic advances

SAN JOSE: Croatia's Ivo Karlovic and Denmark's Kristian Pless put themselves in the paths of high-seeded stars with first round triumphs here on Monday at the ATP SAP Open.

Karlovic defeated Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3, 7-6(7) to set up a second round match against either U.S. second seed James Blake or Russian Igor Kunitsyn.

Pless defeated Ukranian Sergiy Stakhovsky 7-5, 6-1 to book a second round clash with either third seed Andy Murray of Britain or American Kevin Kim.

The results:

At San Jose (ATP SAP Open): First round: Kristian Pless bt Sergiy Stakhovsky 7-5, 6-1; Ivo Karlovic bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3, 7-6(7); Simon Greul bt Robert Kendrick 6-3, 6-2; Lu Yen-hsun bt Brian Wilson 6-1, 6-2; Sam Querrey bt Paul Goldstein 6-2, 6-1; Sam Warburg bt Amer Delic 6-4, 6-3.

At Rio de Janeiro (ATP Brazil Open): First round: Nicolas Devilder bt Rogerio Dutra 6-1, 6-3; Juan Chela bt Alberto Martmn 6-4, 6-2; Potito Starace bt Gaston Gaudio 6-4, 6-3; Martmn Vasallo bt Olivier Patience 6-4, 6-3; Thiago Alves bt Carlos Moya 2-6, 7-5, 6-3; Juan Monaco bt Jiri Vanek 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. — Agencies

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