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Baghdatis beats Recouderc in 1st round in Nice

The Columbian
Published: May 18, 2010, 12:00am

NICE, France (AP) — Fifth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus has beated Laurent Recouderc of France 6-4, 7-5 in the first round of the Open de Nice.

Baghdatis was initially scheduled to play Mario Ancic on Tuesday, but the Croat withdrew because of a back injury and was replaced by Recouderc.

The Cypriot dropped serve only once and will next play Simon Greul of Germany.

Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine defeated Andreas Seppi of Italy 7-5, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals.

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