BARCELONA, April 25: Third seed Tommy Robredo demolished fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-2, 6-2 on Tuesday to cruise into the third round of the Barcelona Open.

Robredo, runner-up to Rafael Nadal last year and the winner in 2004, needed just 69 minutes to advance to a clash with 15th seed Agustin Calleri of Argentina or Italian qualifier Paolo Lorenzi in the last 16.

Fourth seed David Nalbandian was barely tested as he breezed into the last 16 with a 6-2, 6-0 drubbing of Spaniard Alberto Martin.

But there was another defeat for former world No 1 Marat Safin as he went down 6-4, 7-6 in the first round to Simone Bolelli, the world number 103 from Italy.

Former French Open champion Gaston Gaudio suffered a humiliating first-round defeat as he was battered 6-1, 6-0 by Swede Robin Soderling.

Tuesday’s results (prefix number denotes seeding):

Second round: 15-Agustin Calleri (Argentina) beat Paolo Lorenzi (Italy) 6-2, 6-2; 3-Tommy Robredo (Spain) beat Feliciano Lopez (Spain) 6-2, 6-2.

First round: 14-Nicolas Almagro (Spain) beat Fabio Fognini (Italy) 6-3, 6-2; Paul Goldstein (US) beat Fernando Vicente (Spain) 6-3, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3; Potito Starace (Italy) beat Sam Querrey (US) 6-4, 6-4; Boris Pasanski (Serbia) beat Carlos Berlocq (Argentina) 4-0 –Berlocq retired; Jiri Vanek (Czech Republic) beat Juan Antonio Marin (Costa Rica) 6-0, 3-2 – Marin retired; Kristof Vliegen (Belgium) beat Davide Sanguinetti (Italy) 6-2, 6-4; 13-Robin Soederling (Sweden) beat Gaston Gaudio (Argentina) 6-1, 6-0.

Monday’s results:

First round: Calleri beat Marc Lopez (Spain) 7-5, 5-7, 6-3; Filippo Volandri (Italy) beat Evgeny Korolev (Russia) 6-0, 6-4; Alberto Martin (Spain) beat Alejandro Falla (Colombia) 6-1, 6-4; Felix Mantilla (Spain) beat Farrukh Dustov (Uzbekistan) 6-4, 1-6, 6-0; Oscar Hernandez (Spain) beat 9-Dmitry Tursunov (Russia) 6-4, 6-4; Pablo Andujar (Spain) beat Bartolome Salva (Spain) 6-4, 6-0; Lorenzi beat Stefano Galvani (Italy) 6-7 (6-8), 6-2, 7-6 (7-1); Thomas Johansson (Sweden) beat Lee Hyung-Taik (South Korea) 6-3, 6-3; Feliciano Lopez beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spain) 7-5, 6-3; Benjamin Becker (Germany) beat Igor Kunitsyn (Russia) 7-6 (7-2), 6-4; Andreas Seppi (Italy) beat Ivo Karlovic (Croatia) 6-7 (2-7), 7-5, 6-3; Andrei Pavel (Romania) beat 10-Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Yuri Schukin (Russia) beat Werner Eschauer (Austria) 6-4, 6-4; Vince Spadea (US) beat Teimuraz Gabashvili (Russia) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.—Reuters