Defending champion Feliciano Lopez had a scare before reaching the quarter-finals in defence of the only title of his career so far in the BA-CA Trophy.
The eighth-seeded Spaniard was twice unable to close out the match from winning positions against Oliver Marach, a local wild card player, and was nearly taken to a fraught final set tie-breaker before squeezing home 6-4, 6-7, 7-5 on Thursday.
SECOND ROUND: Ivan Ljubicic (CRO x5) bt Tommy Haas (GER) 6-3, 6-4; Fernando Gonzalez (CHI x6) bt Carlos Moya (ESP) 6-4, 7-5; Feliciano Lopez (ESP x8) bt Oliver Marach (AUT) 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 7-5; Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP x7) bt Nicolas Lapentti (ECU) 6-4, 6-4; David Nalbandian (ARG x1) bt Rainer Eitzinger (AUT) 6-1 7-5.; Jean-Rene Lisnard (FRA) bt Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (7/4).