Andy Murray made a winning return from a long-term wrist injury Tuesday, beating Spanish wild card Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-3, 6-1 in the first round of the Valencia Open. The fourth-ranked Briton, who had not played since the US.Open, won 22 of 26 first-serve points and broke Gimeno-Traver five times. Murray, seeded No. 1, next plays Leonardo Mayer of Argentina, who defeated Igor Andreev of Russia 6-3, 6-3. Defending champion David Ferrer broke Nicolas Almagro six times on the hard court in a 7-5, 6-7 (3), 6-2 win. Almagro twice won the tournament in Valencia when it was played on clay. French players Gilles Simon and Gael Monfils also advanced. The fifth-seeded Simon beat Igor Kunitsyn of Russia 6-3, 6-2, and sixth seed Monfils defeated Spanish wild-card entry Marcel Granollers 6-4, 6-2. Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay rallied from 5-2 down in the second set to beat 2003 champion Juan Carlos Ferrero 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3. Also, Juan Monaco beat Martin Vassallo Arguello 6-3, 6-2 in an all-Argentine match. Djokovic in 2nd round Novak Djokovic made a winning debut Tuesday at the Swiss Indoors as the Serbian claimed a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Andreas Beck in the tennis stronghold of Roger Federer. Third-ranked Djokovic delivered ten aces to set up a second-round match with Czech Jan Hernych, who extended the misery of Australian qualifier Peter Luczak, who sank deeper into a rut with a third straight loss in the first round, 6-3, 6-4. Swiss hopes fared well, with Marco Chiudinelli rallying from a final-set deficit to overhaul German eighth seed Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 7-5. The Swiss pounded down 11 aces to 15 for his German opponent, with Chiudinelli saving ten of the dozen break points he faced. The 28-year-old Chiudinelli, who is the third ranked Swiss singles player behind Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka, is making his fifth appearance in Basel, and has now earned his second victory win for a 2-4 record after winning his first match here in five years. Russian Evgeny Korolev advanced over Italy's Simone Bolelli 3-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2, while Victor Troicki ended hope of Benjamin Becker 6-2, 7-6 (7-5). Safin, Grosjean get wild cards Former champions Marat Safin and Sebastien Grosjean have been given wild-card entries for the upcoming Paris Masters. Safin won the indoor tournament for the third time in 2004, while Grosjean won it in 2001 – in between Safin's other two titles. Michael Llodra, runner-up to Ivan Ljubicic at the Lyon Grand Prix on Sunday, has also been given a wild card, the French tennis federation said Tuesday.
