Cilic, Berdych, Hewitt advance in Munich

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05/05/2009 - Munich, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Second-seeded Croat Marin Cilic, fourth- seeded Czech Tomas Berdych and former world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt were among Tuesday's first-round winners at the $595,000 clay-court BMW Open.

Cilic zipped past German qualifier Dieter Kindlmann 6-3, 6-2, while Berdych topped German qualifier Sascha Kloer 7-6 (7-0), 6-4 at MTTC Iphitos.

The two-time major titlist Hewitt, a wild card here, outlasted German Philipp Petzschner 6-2, 6-7 (2-7), 7-6 (10-8) for his 500th ATP match win. The Aussie star saved two match points before sneaking past the game Petzschner.

Day-3 upsets came when Dutch qualifier Thiemo De Bakker knocked out fifth- seeded German favorite Rainer Schuettler 6-3, 6-3 and Italian Potito Starace erased eighth-seeded Russian Igor Kunitsyn 7-5, 5-7, 6-3.

Seventh-seeded Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu avoided an upset by drilling Algerian lucky-loser Lamine Ouahab 6-3, 6-2.

In other matches involving Germans, Denis Gremelmayr beat Argentine Martin Vassallo Arguello 5-1, wild card Daniel Brands doused Austrian Stefan Koubek 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) and wild card Andreas Beck leveled countryman Mischa Zverev 6-3, 6-4. Vassallo Arguello succumbed to a lower back injury in the first set against Gremelmayr.

Additional opening-round wins came for Frenchman Julien Benneteau and Italian Simone Bolelli, who overcame Swiss lucky-loser Stephane Bohli 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. Bolelli was last year's Munich runner-up to Chilean slugger Fernando Gonzalez.

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