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Top seed David Ferrer and world No. 10 Richard Gasquet were among Tuesday's opening-round winners at the season-opening Qatar Open, a $1.05 million Australian Open tune-up.

The world No. 5 Ferrer got off to a slow start before righting the ship for a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 victory over 6-foot-5 German qualifier Dustin Brown, who frustrated the gritty Spaniard in the first set with some serve-and-volley tennis.

Up next for Ferrer, who led the ATP World Tour with seven titles and 76 match wins last year, will be another German, Tobias Kamke.

The second-seeded Gasquet defeated Czech qualifier Jan Hernych 6-3, 6-4 on the hardcourts at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex. The nifty Frenchman's second-round opponent will be Slovenia's Grega Zemlja.

Meanwhile, veteran Mikhail Youzhny became the fourth-ever Russian player to record 400 ATP match wins with a 4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-1 decision against German Benjamin Becker.

Upsets came when German qualifier Daniel Brands doused fifth-seeded Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-4, 6-4, Poland's Lukasz Kubot leveled seventh-seeded Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-4, 6-2, and Czech Lukas Rosol topped eighth-seeded Spaniard Pablo Andujar 6-2, 7-6 (7-2). Rosol shocked the great Rafael Nadal in the second round at Wimbledon last summer.

Last year's Doha runner-up and two-time finalist Gael Monfils moved on with a 6-0, 6-3 pasting of wild card Mousa Shanan Zayed of Qatar on Day 2. The oft- injured Monfils gave way to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in last year's all-French finale here.

Also on Tuesday, German qualifier Tobias Kamke whipped Spaniard Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 6-1, 6-2, Slovak Lukas Lacko held off Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, and Egyptian Mohamed Safwat double-bageled fellow wild card Jabor Mohammed Ali Mutawa of Qatar 6-0, 6-0.