Second seed Mikhail Youzhny and third seed Juan Carlos Ferrero lost their second-round matches at the Austrian Open on Wednesday.
Youzhny was defeated by Austria's Alexander Peya 7-5, 6-0, while Ferrero lost to Italy's Andreas Seppi 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-2.
Top seed Tommy Robredo and defending champion Agustin Calleri advanced to the third round.
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Youzhny got an early break to lead 4-2, but the world No. 13 from Russia could win only one more game.
"Probably my best match ever," Peya said. "The start was a bit shaky, but then my game was very, very solid."
The 17th-ranked Ferrero lost a tight match against Seppi, who reached his first career final last week in Gstaad.
Ferrero also lost his only previous meeting against the Italian, in 2005.
Robredo defeated Juan-Pablo Guzman of Argentina 6-1, 6-4.
The seventh-ranked Robredo held serve throughout but had to fight off 10 break points against Guzman, who played his second match of the day after beating Peter Luczak of Australia 6-3, 6-4 in a delayed first-round encounter.
Calleri started the defense of his title with a 6-3, 7-6 (4) victory over Rainer Eitzinger of Austria.
Sixth seed Calleri broke his Austrian opponent twice to win the first set, but had to rally from a break down to take the second into a tiebreaker.
Fourth seed Juan Ignacio Chela needed 2 hours, 47 minutes to finish off Daniel Koellerer of Austria 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
The Argentine, last year's losing finalist against Calleri, faced 18 break points, but dropped his serve just four times.
Koellerer got medical treatment for muscle cramps at 3-2 in the decider, and did not win a game afterward.
Sergio Roitman entered the third round by downing 13th seed Nicolas Massu 7-5, 6-2. The Argentine, who won his first-round 2-6, 6-1, 6-1 against Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez hours earlier, converted five of 12 break chances.
Also, Diego Hartfield of Argentina beat 12th seed Oscar Hernandez of Spain 5-7, 6-0, 6-3. After clinching a tight first set, Hernandez won just six points in the second.
Hartfield used one break to win the decider.
Qualifier Fabio Fognini of Italy fought off a match point before beating 16th seed Werner Eschauer of Austria 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.
Fognini lost the first set after leading 4-1. In the decider, he faced a match point at 5-3 down but then broke Eschauer twice to wrap up the victory.
Roddick through to quarters
Top seed Andy Roddick took another step toward his fourth final in five years at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships with a 6-3, 6-2 second round victory over Evgeny Korolev of Russia on Wednesday.
The two-time champion needed just 67 minutes to defeat Korolev. He was broken only once in nine service games and took control after being broken in the second game of the second set. Roddick won for the 18th time in 20 matches at Indianapolis.
"My service wasn't great, but I feel I'm playing really well from the baseline," Roddick said. "I was moving well and felt I was in pretty good shape."
Earlier, Canadian Frank Dancevic defeated Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 to reach his first ATP quarter-finals since turning pro in 2003.
The 22-year-old, who got into the tournament as an alternate, had 17 aces, the last coming on his third match point. He is the first Canadian to reach the quarters of an ATP event since Feb. 24, 2001, when Sebastien Lareau reached the semi-finals in Memphis.
"It was a last-minute change that got me in," said Dancevic, who had not won two consecutive matches at an ATP stop this year. He brought a 9-12 record and a 109th ranking into the tournament.
He next meets Igor Kunitsyn of Russia, who advanced when No. 4 seed Mardy Fish had to retire after injuring his left knee after losing the opening set 6-4. Following an injury timeout, Fish tried to play the second set and retired after losing the first point.
"It just happened after the first serve of the second set. I couldn't put pressure on my leg," said Fish, who has been bothered by tendinitis in his right knee. "The pain that I had from the patellar tendinitis was kind of bearable. This is just not the case. That it comes in one specific move is kind of scary."
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