St. Petersburg, Russia (Sports Network) - Seventh seed Guillermo Garcia-Lopez
was a come-from-behind winner Monday at the St. Petersburg Open tennis event.
The Spanish Garcia-Lopez overcame Russian wild card Evgeny Donskoy 2-6, 6-4,
6-3 on the indoor hardcourts at SCC Peterburgsky.
Also in first-round play, Italian Flavio Cipolla beat Belarusian qualifier
Andrei Vasilevski 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (8-6).
This week's top seed is Russian favorite Mikhail Youzhny, who titled here in
2004 and was the St. Petersburg runner-up in 2002 and 2010.
Croat Marin Cilic beat Serb Janko Tipsarevic in last year's finale, but
neither player made the trip to northwestern Russia this year.
The Sports Network