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Michael Llodra beats David Goffin at Marseille Open 13

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Michael Llodra will face Juan Martin del Potro in the second round in Marseille.

Michael Llodra will face Juan Martin del Potro in the second round in Marseille.

Michael Llodra beat David Goffin of Belgium 6-2, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Open 13 on Tuesday and set up a rematch of last year's final against defending champion Juan Martin del Potro.

Ernests Gulbis of Latvia also faces a tough test against top-seeded Tomas Berdych after comfortably seeing off Finland's Jarkko Nieminen 6-3, 6-2.

Hiowever, fifth-seeded Richard Gasquet was upset by Gilles Muller of Luxembourg, losing 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

The Frenchman, who beat countryman Benoit Paire in the Open Sud de France last week, was leading 5-2 in the final set.

"I was catastrophic at 5-2," Gasquet said. "I did so many errors. I was a bit tired but I wanted to do really well. But it wasn't my day. The umpire was awful, I was awful, everyone was awful."

India's Somdev Devvarman also pulled off an upset as he beat Paire 7-6 (6), 6-7 (7), 6-4. He will next face Bernard Tomic of Australia.

Paire is ranked 339 places above Devvarman.

Fellow Frenchman Gael Monfils also lost, 6-4, 6-4 to Marcel Granollers of Spain.

Meanwhile, Nikolay Davydenko beat Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, and Roberto Bautista-Agut defeated Filip Krajinovic 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-0.