■SAP OPEN
AP, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
Fourth-seeded Tommy Haas of Germany needed a tie-breaker to beat American wild-card Devin Britton 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) in the first round of the SAP Open on Tuesday.
Eighth-seeded Jeremy Chardy’s losing streak extended to six matches when the Frenchman was eliminated by Bjorn Phau of Germany 6-3, 6-1.
German Philipp Kohlschreiber, the No. 6 seed, rallied to beat Rajeev Ram of the US 6-7 (5/7), 6-1, 6-3, while American Michael Russell, who played in his first professional tournament two years ago when he was 15, beat lucky loser Im Kyu-tae of South Korea 7-6 (10/8), 6-1.
Lithuanian teenager Ricardas Berankis, the former junior No. 1, beat Robby Ginepri of the US 6-7 (5/7), 6-2, 6-3, while Benjamin Becker of Germany topped Tim Smyczek of the US 6-4, 6-2.
Mardy Fish withdrew from his singles match because of a left-knee injury, but plans to remain in the doubles draw with Sam Querry.
■GDF SUEZ OPEN
AP, PARIS
Swiss veteran Patty Schnyder beat seventh-seeded Virginie Razzano of France 6-3, 7-6 (7/3) in her season debut at the GDF Suez Open on Tuesday.
The two other seeds in first-round action had far less trouble.
No. 4 seed Francesca Schiavone routed Russian qualifier Vesna Manasieva 6-0, 6-0, while sixth-seeded Shahar Peer beat Alize Cornet of France 6-4, 6-1.
Schnyder will next play Melanie Oudin of the US, a US Open quarter-finalist last year.
Schiavone, who led Italy past Ukraine in the first round of their Fed Cup defense at the weekend, didn’t lose a game to Manasieva, but still took almost an hour to put her away. Next up will be 2007 runner-up Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic.
Peer broke Cornet four times to set up a second-round meeting with Croatia’s Karolina Sprem, a 7-5, 6-1 winner against Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky.
There were also straight-sets wins for Oudin, Safarova, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia and Andrea Petkovic of Germany, while Tathiana Garbin of Italy struggled to get the better of Romanian qualifier Ioana Raluca Olaru 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
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