Blake, Nalbandian advance at BNP Paribas Open

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03/13/2010 - Indian Wells, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A pair of former top-five players in American James Blake and Argentine David Nalbandian were a pair of easy first- round winners Friday at the $4.5 million BNP Paribas Open, an ATP World Tour Masters event.

Blake cruised past Spaniard Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-3, 6-2 in a mere 55 minutes on the hardcourts at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. The struggling 30-year- old Blake improved to a pedestrian 6-5 this season.

Nalbandian, who reached as high as third in the world rankings, topped qualifier Stefan Koubek 6-2, 7-6 (7-2) in nearly one hour, 15 minutes. He reached the quarterfinals at Copa Telmex earlier this year before pulling out with an injury.

Also advancing to the second round were Romanian Victor Hanescu, Iranian Sergiy Stakhovsky, Dutchman Thiemo De Bakker, Italian Andres Seppi, American Michael Russell, Brazilian Ricardo Mello, Frenchmen Paul-Henri Mathieu and Arnaud Clement and Kazakhstan's Evgeny Korolev.

Mathieu was a straight set winner over Benjamin Becker 6-3, 6-1, and Clement beat Peter Luczak 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Additional opening-round wins came for Spaniard Nicolas Almagro, Israeli Dudi Sela, German Simon Greul, Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu and Aussie Marinko Matosevic. Sela dismissed American Jesse Levine 6-2, 6-2, while Greul drove out Frenchman Richard Gasquet 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (9-7).

This week's 32 seeds all received byes into the second round. The top seeds are three-time champion Roger Federer, 2008 titlist and 2007 runner-up Novak Djokovic, two-time champion and reigning titlist Rafael Nadal and 2009 Indian Wells runner-up Andy Murray. Nadal beat the U.S. Open runner-up Murray in last year's finale and also titled here in '07.

This week's winner will collect $605,500.

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