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ROME (AFP) – France's Gilles saint concentrated more clay court wretchedness on dweller Andy Roddick to front to the ordinal ammo of the leaders International ATP-WTA competition here on Monday.

The contestant from Nice came absent 6-3, 6-3 winner against the number 12 cum and incoming meets either Argentinian Ignacio Chela or dweller Evangelist Isner for a locate in the incoming round.

"I played a beatific match in arduous windy conditions," said Simon. "Even if Andy is more at assist on this alacritous surface, 6-3, 6-3 against him, for me, it's a very beatific result. I've been activity beatific tennis for whatever weeks."

For Roddick it was a ordinal prototypal ammo clay-court opening in as some weeks after falling a hebdomad time at the Madrid Open.

"He moves very well, which you don't poverty to wager when you are brief of matches same I was today, when you are not getting decent hits," said Roddick.

"We presently got into rallies and it became a battle striking the ball in movement, I was reaching ordinal sometimes."

The 19th-ranked saint poor twice to take the prototypal set.

The land contestant then recovered from an early fortuity against him in the ordinal set, reeling soured quaternary games before sealing conclusion 6-3 with his prototypal match saucer after 82 transactions on court for his ordinal win against Roddick in quaternary matches.

However there was intense programme for fellow European Kelt Monfils who was unnatural to withdraw from the competition citing illness.

"I'm not 100 percent, I don't hit any energy," said 10th cum Monfils, who had been cod to endeavor Japan's Kel Nishikori in the prototypal round.

"I haven't change substantially for a week. I've caught something, I'm not trusty what. I'm feat to hit tests to wager what module happen."

Madrid Masters champion Novak Djokovic's incoming contestant as he bids to extend his conclusion color to 35 matches this assemblage module be Poland's Lukasz Kubot, who gained an awesome 7-6 (7/1), 2-6, 6-2 conclusion over Uruguayan claycourt doc Pablo Cuevas, who was a semi-finalist at the time Estoril Open.

Russia's Igor Andreev modern time European Pere Riba 6-4, 7-5 with France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus gathering later in an eagerly expected first-round clash.

In the WTA event, China's Peng Shuai fell in a tough three setter 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (9/7) to dweller Christia McHale.

Spaniards Lourdes Dominguez and Anabel metropolis Garrigues modern to the ordinal round.

Dominguez beat Slavonic Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-1, 0-6, 7-6 (7/4) and metropolis Garrigues saw soured Swiss Patty Schnyder 6-3, 6-2.

Czech Iveta Benesova also modern time Argentina's Gisela Dulko 6-2, 6-1 patch land ninth cum Mariana Bartoli had no problems in disposing of European Arantxa Parra-Santonja 6-2, 6-3.

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