GSTAAD, Switzerland — Second seed Stanislas Wawrinka gave away a double break but regained the initiative to beat Spain's Daniel Gimeno-Traver 7-5, 7-6 (7/4) Wednesday in a nervous, but winning, start to the Swiss Open. The Lausanne player looked to be cruising to a straightforward success against No. 62 Gimeno-Traver. But the Spaniard had other ideas, recapturing both second set breaks — Wawrinka had a match point in the 12th game — and forcing the clay contest into a tiebreaker. A 12th ace from the big-hitting 10th-ranked Swiss earned three more match points in the decider, with Gimeno-Traver saving the first with an ace before finally going down through a backhand error. Wawrinka will take on another Spaniard when he plays Feliciano Lopez Friday. The fifth seed from Madrid earned a 6-4, 6-3 defeat of Russian Andrey Kuznetsov. The 2004 champion, and 17-time Grand Slam title winner, Roger Federer takes the top seeding but will not start until Thursday when he faces German Daniel Brands in the second round. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez was crushed 6-1, 6-2 as Argentine Juan Monaco won his opening career match at the event. There was more Spanish disappointment for Pablo Andujar, beaten in just over two hours, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 by Russian sixth seed Mikhail Youzhny. Fognini in quarterfinals Third-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy advanced to the quarterfinals of Croatia Open Wednesday, defeating Thiemo de Bakker 7-5, 6-3. The Italian made several unforced errors at the start of the match to hand de Bakker a 5-1 lead, but Fognini then won nine consecutive games to take control. Fognini earned his 11th consecutive singles victory, after winning titles in Stuttgart and Hamburg. — Agencies
