CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP)—Jarkko Nieminen of Finland and 2009 runner-up Florent Serra of France won in straight sets to advance to the second round of the Grand Prix Hassan II on Tuesday.
Nieminen won 10 straight games in routing Mehdi Ziadi of Morocco 6-1, 6-1. Serra defeated beat 2004 champion Santiago Ventura of Spain 6-4, 6-3.
Richard Gasquet cruised past seventh-seeded Olivier Rochus 6-1, 6-1 in 47 minutes.
Top-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland had a first-round bye and will play qualifier Martin Klizan of Slovakia, who rallied past Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. of Ukraine 4-6, 6-1, 7-5.
Jan Hajek of the Czech Republic, wild card Reda El Amrani of Morocco, Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan, and Frenchmen Arnaud Clement and Stephane Robert also moved into the next round.
Hajek ousted sixth-seeded Simon Greul of Germany 7-6 (3), 6-4 for the second time this year, and El Amrani outlasted Teimuraz Gabashvili of Russia 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (4) for his first win on the main ATP World Tour.
Greul wasted nine break chances while Hajek converted five out of six.
Clement beat Spanish qualifier Ivan Navarro 6-3, 6-3, Golubev defeated Daniel Koellerer of Austria 6-2, 7-6 (5), and Robert edged Stefan Koubek of Austria 6-3, 5-7, 7-5.