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Summary Mardy Fish, Xavier Malisse and Igor Andreev advanced to the second round of the tournament.
The American tennis star Andy Roddick suffered a shocking first round defeat at the hands of Gilles Simons of France in Rome Masters. In other matches, Mardy Fish of US beat Santiago Giraldo of Colombia while Xavier Malisse of Belgium defeated Garcia Lopez of Spain and Igor Andreev of Russia beat Pere Riba of Spain to reach the second round.
