Federer drops set, still advances

Federer fended off three set points in the third set before finishing off a 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7-2), 6-0 victory over Igor Andreev. After the first set in which he had his serve broken twice, Federer evened the match. But Andreev charged back from a 3-5 third-set deficit and went up 6-5. He had three chances to finish the set only to commit a string of errors -- he had 55 unforced errors in the match -- and Federer capitalized.

No. 8-seeded Swede Robin Soderling let a two-set lead slip away and was ousted by Spain's Marcel Granollers 5-7, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 in Tuesday's biggest upset.

Other seeded players defeated Tuesday were No. 16-seeded Tommy Robredo who was beaten 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 by Santiago Giraldo; 23rd-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrero, who was ousted by Ivan Dodig 2-6, 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-1; and No. 28 Jurgen Melzer, who lost 1-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to Florent Serra.

Third-seeded Serb Novak Djokovic suffered just one break of serve in ousting Daniel Gimeno-Traver 7-5, 6-3, 6-2 while sixth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko from Russia needed just 91 minutes to dispatch Dieter Kindlmann 6-1, 6-0, 6-3. No. 9-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco took out Carsten Bell 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-1), 7-5, 6-2 and 10th-seeded French player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 winner over Sergiy Stakhovsky.

No. 12-seeded Frenchman Gael Monfils won 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 over Matthew Ebden; 14th-seeded Croatian Marin Cilic defeated Fabrice Santoto 7-5, 7-5, 6-3; No. 17 Spaniard David Ferrer was ahead 6-0, 6-0, 2-0 when Frederico Gil retired and No. 19-seeded Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka stopped Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3, 6-3, 6-2.

Other seeded players who collected first-round wins Tuesday were: No. 21 Czech Tomas Berdych, 22nd-seeded Australian Lleyton Hewitt, 27th-seeded German Philipp Kohlschreiber, 29th-seeded Viktor Troicki, No. 30-seeded Argentine Juan Monaco, 31st-seeded Albert Montanes and No. 33 American John Isner.

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