Dancevic pulls off big tennis upset

Andreev only won 12 points when returning Dancevic's serve. In the second set, Dancevic won 14 of his 15 first-serve points to finish Andreev off in the first round.

Fifth-seeded Mikhail Youzhny was another upset victim, as Julien Benneteau rallied for a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 opening-round match. The grueling match took 2 hours, 18 minutes.

In second-round play, No. 4-seeded Fabrice Santoro came back for a 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 win over Robby Ginepri and eighth-seeded Guillermo Garcia-Lopez topped Yen-Hsun Lu 6-4, 67- (0-7), 7-6 (7-3) in a match that took nearly 3 hours.

Also Tuesday, Janko Tipsarevic beat Brydan Klein 7-6 (7-5), 6-1 and Ivan Ljubicic defeated Joshua Goodall 6-3, 7-5 in second-round matches.

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