Kohlschreiber ousted in Munich
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Munich, Germany (SportsNetwork.com) - Two-time champion and last year's runner-up Philipp Kohlschreiber will not appear in a third straight final at the $590,000 BMW Open after suffering a first-round upset on Tuesday.
Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin outlasted the fifth-seeded German crowd favorite Kohlschreiber 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 at this clay court French Open tune-up.
Tommy Haas beat a then-reigning titlist Kohlschreiber in last year's popular all-German BMW finale.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Other upsets occurred when German qualifier Jan-Lennard Struff drove out sixth-seeded Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-4 and Brazilian qualifier Thomaz Bellucci doused eighth-seeded Croat Ivan Dodig 7-6 (7-0), 6-4 at MTTC.
Seventh-seeded Italian Andreas Seppi topped German lucky loser Michael Berrer 6-3, 7-5 on Day 2.
Meanwhile, Spanish qualifier Albert Ramos beat former world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt 6-7 (6-8), 6-1, 6-0 and additional wins came for Austrian Jurgen Melzer, Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky and Slovakian qualifier Martin Klizan.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}On Wednesday, a second-round match will see third-seeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny battle Klizan. Youzhny captured this event in 2010 and was the runner- up in 2007 and 2009.
This week's champion will earn $107,000.