MASON, Ohio — Andy Roddick lost to Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-1 Monday in the first round of the Western & Southern Open.
The 11th-seeded Roddick already had received a warning from the chair umpire for flinging his racket to the court after losing the second set when he double-faulted in the second game of the third set to fall behind 30-40.
He smacked a ball high into the stands, earning a point penalty which gave the game and a 2-0 lead in the set to Kohlschreiber, who later closed it out with an ace.
Also in Monday’s first round, Italy’s Fabio Fognini upset 14th-seeded Viktor Troicki of Serbia 6-4, 6-1 and No. 101 Chanelle Scheepers, a qualifier from South Africa, eliminated 39th-ranked Rebecca Marino of Vancouver 7-5, 6-2.
The 38th-ranked Fognini beat the 16th-ranked Troicki for first time in three matches.
France’s Richard Gasquet became the first seeded man to advance without a bye. The 14th-seeded Gasquet needed a second-set tiebreaker to overcome Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-1, 7-6 (4).
“I did a pretty good tiebreak,” Gasquet said. “There was a lot of tension, but I knew it was important because, in the third set, you never know what can happen, so I’m happy.”
Alex Bogomolov Jr. cruised past Robby Ginepri 6-4, 6-3 in a matchup of Americans.
Spain’s Fernando Verdasco defeated Brazil’s Thomaz Bellucci 6-3, 7-6 (4), Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov beat Turkey’s Marsel Ilhan 6-3, 7-5, Feliciano Lopez fought off fellow Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, and Argentina’s David Nalbandian beat Japan’s Kai Nishikori 6-4, 6-4.
American wild-card Ryan Harrison ousted Argentina’s Juan Ignacio Chela 6-3, 6-3, and Chela’s countryman, Juan Monaco, came from behind to beat Tommy Haas of Germany 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3.
Svetlana Kuznetsova became the first seeded woman to advance without a bye. The 14th-seeded Russian beat American qualifier Jill Craybas 6-3, 6-4. Ninth-seeded Andrea Petkovic lost the first set and survived a second-set tiebreaker to pull out a 5-7, 7-6 (5) 6-2 win over Slovakian Jamila Gajdosova, and Ana Ivanovic of Serbia rolled to a 6-0, 6-2 win over qualifier Alexa Glatch of the United States.
Petkovic felt as if she almost didn’t deserve to win the gruelling match that lasted two hours 52 minutes.
“I feel terrible,” she said. “I feel awful, really, because (Gajdosova) was playing incredible. She was just hitting winners all over. I don’t know how long we played, and I felt like I was in the defence all the time. That’s not a good feeling, especially for a player like me who likes to be the dominant one, so I just felt terrible all the time. I don’t know how I pulled it out, but I’m thrilled that I did.”
Ivanovic needed just 26 minutes to win her first set and exactly one hour to finish her match. The former French Open champion hoped for a quick start, she said.
“It was very important, especially knowing she had a couple of matches under her belt,” said the 17th-ranked Ivanovic, forced by a left foot injure to retire while playing eventual champion Kim Clijsters in last year’s semifinals. “I had never seen her before, so it was like a new match for me.”
Ukraine’s Alona Bondarenko defeated Japan’s Ayumi Morita 6-2, 4-6, 6-2; Israel’s Shahar Peer beat Germany’s Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 7-6 (4); Czech qualifier Petra Cetkovska defeated Spain’s Anabel Medina Garrigues 2-6, 6-2, 6-2, and Italy’s Sara Errani beat U.S. qualifier Sloane Stephens 6-1, 7-5.