TENNIS in DEPTH.

Defending champion Nikolay Davydenko will open his campaign in round two against Frenchman Florent Serra, who beat Evgeny Korolev 7-6 (9/7) 6-3. Other winners included Jarkko Nieminen, Jeremy Chardy and Fabio Fognini.

Davydenko’s defence has already got a little easier with the news number two seed David Ferrer has withdrawn with a right shoulder injury, and fourth seed Gael Monfils is also out with an ankle problem.

Last year’s runner-up Paul-Henri Mathieu crashed out in the first round of the German Open in Hamburg when he fell in three sets to the Spanish qualifier Pere Riba.

His 1-6 6-0 6-3 defeat was Mathieu’s eighth first-round loss in his last nine tournaments and means the former world number 12 is destined to slide further outside the world’s top 50.

Home favourite Florian Mayer advanced with a 6-4 6-1 win over Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas but elsewhere there was disappointment as Andreas Beck, Mischa Zverev, Simon Greul and Bjorn Phau all lost.

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