Number three seed Nicolas Almagro cruised into the third round of the German Open Championships in Hamburg on Tuesday, but number seven seed Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine was dumped out of the tournament by Germany’s Florian Mayer.
Day two at the German Tennis Championships in Hamburg and there were still a few first round matches to be completed.
Gael Monfils continued his return from injury with a straight sets win over Russia’s Andrey Golubev.
After 83 minutes Monfils completed a 6-3, 6-3 win and he’ll meet the number five seed, Juan Monaco of Argentina, in round two.
The second round matches that took place on Tuesday saw some of the seeds take to the clay.
Seventh seed Alexandr Dolgopolov, was expected to make light work of Florian Mayer, but the popular German, roared on by a home crowd, had other ideas.
Mayer fought his way into to round three winning 6-3, 6-4, and will now face either Feliciano Lopez of Spain or wild card Jan-Lennard Struff in the quarter-finals.
Number three seed Nicolas Almagro cruised into the third round following a 67-minute 6-3, 6-3 victory over another German, Tobias Kamke.
Almagro never looked in any danger against an opponent ranked 63 places below him and after an impressive win over Lukas Rosol on Monday, Kamke went out with a whimper with a double fault on match point.
Almagro will face either thirteenth seed Mikhail Youzhny or Spain’s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez next.
