Top-seeded Simon, Robredo upset at German Open

Simon, Robredo upset at German Open

HAMBURG — Top-seeded Gilles Simon of France was eliminated from the German Open on Tuesday, losing to German wild card Daniel Brands 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the second round.

Simon was lost in the second round as the top-seeded player for the second straight week. That upset came at the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart.

Ivan Navarro beat fourth-seeded Tommy Robredo 7-5, 7-6 (2) in an all-Spanish match. Another Spaniard, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, ousted fifth-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 6-2, 6-4.

Robredo was the only returning champion in the field, having won the Hamburg clay-court event in 2006. He lost to a 27-year-old journeyman who has never won an ATP title.

In another upset, qualifier Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay beat ninth-seeded Jurgen Melzer of Austria 7-6 (5), 6-3.

No. 8 Philipp Kohlschreiber defeated qualifier Potito Starace of Italy 6-2, 4-6, 6-4; No. 10 Viktor Troicki of Serbia rallied past Teimuraz Gabashvili of Russia 3-6, 6-2, 6-4; and No. 13. Paul-Henri Mathieu of France struggled to overcome Spanish qualifier Pere Riba 6-1, 2-6, 7-6 (3).

In the first round, Julien Benneteau of France beat Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina 6-4, 1-6, 6-1; Juan Monaco of Argentina defeated Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 7-6 (4), 6-3; and Florian Mayer downed Rainer Schuettler 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-3 in a match between Germans.