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Mate Pavic pulled off an upset in the first round of the Unicef Open at s'Hertogenbosch with a 6-4 7-6 (7-2) win over World No 40 Robin Haase.
Croatian 18-year-old Pavic, ranked 640th in the world and playing just his second main tour event, seized the only break point chance in the first set and kept his nerve in the second set tie-break to complete his famous win.
There were no such problems for Austrian third seed Jurgen Melzer, who beat Russia's Igor Kunitsyn 6-1 6-1, and other winners were Olivier Rochus, Leonardo Mayer, Tatsuma Ito, Benoitr Paire, Philipp Petzschner, Alejandro Falla and Paolo Lorenzi.
The women's event saw two major shocks with top seed Sam Stosur surprised 7-6 (9-7) 6-3 by Belgian qualifier Kirsten Flipkens, and French Open finalist Sara Errani going down 5-7 6-3 6-4 to Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko.
Fifth seed Maria Kirilenko was another casualty, losing 6-4 3-6 7-5 to Italy's Francesca Schiavone, but Dominika Cibulkova and Roberta Vinci - the third and sixth seeds respectively - both progressed.
Other winners were eighth seed Nadia Petrova, who beat local wild card Kiki Bertens 6-2 6-4,.Shahar Peer, Arantxa Rus, Urszula Radwanska, and Romanian pair Monica Niculescu and Irina Begu.