Fifth seed Phillip Kohlschreiber beat Sergiy Stakhovsky in his opening match at the inaugural Garanti Koza Sofia Open on Tuesday. The German converted on six of his twelve break points and won 70 percent of his first point points.
“It’s always difficult playing indoors, having played outdoors for a few weeks and recovering from jet leg. I knew what to expect and it was a tough match”, said Mueller.
Kohlschreiber set up a second round match against Bosnian Damir Dzumhur who overcame a second round loss to edge Jiri Vesely 6-3 3-6 6-3.
Gilles Mueller, semifinalist in Sydney this year, dropped just seven points on serve en route to beating Malek Jaziri 6-3 6-2 in 61 minutes.
Marius Copil from Romania beat South Korean Hyeon Chung 6-2 6-3. The Romanian player, who has not dropped a set yet, will face either Adrian Mannarino or Evgeny Donskoy.
Thiemo de Bakker beat Matthew Ebden 6-4 6-1 setting up a second-round match against Italian Andreas Seppi.
Daniel Krajnovic came back from losing the second set to overcome Marsel Ilhan 6-3 3-6 6-4 setting up a second round match against Roberto top seed Bautista Agut.
