Nice, France: Fifth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus beat Laurent Recouderc of France 6-4, 7-5 on Tuesday to move into the second round of the Open de Nice.
Baghdatis was initially scheduled to play Mario Ancic, 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.
Also, Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine defeated Andreas Seppi of Italy 7-5, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals.
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