Chennai: Top seed Robin Soderling of Sweden lost 6-4 7-5 to American Robby Ginepri in the Chennai Open first round on Tuesday.
World number eight Soderling lost in one hour 31 minutes to Ginepri, ranked 100th in the world, in a match littered with errors.
Soderling, who began the new year by beating top-ranked Roger Federer in an exhibition event in Abu Dhabi, lost the opening set after he was broken in the seventh game following a spate of unforced errors.
The Swede, who last year reached the French Open final and the quarter-finals of the US Open, had beaten the American in their only previous meeting at the 2007 Hamburg Masters.
The 25-year-old Swede blew a 3-1 lead in the second set after he allowed the American to save three break points and claw his way back. Ginepri, US Open semi-finalist in 2005, broke Soderling again in the seventh game as the Swede missed three overhead shots to hand his opponent the advantage.
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