Andreas Seppi News

French tennis has certainly picked up the pace in recent years -- well, on the men's side anyway -- and the latest of its quality ball-strikers is Benoit Paire.

Fabio Fognini makes quick work of an all-Italian clash against Andreas Seppi on Monday in Rome.

MONDAY PREVIEW FOUR ITALIANS, THREE SEEDS HIGHLIGHT DAY TWO SCHEDULE There are 11 first round matches on Monday's order of play at the Internazionali BNL D'Italia, including four Italians on Centrale.

David Ferrer earns another routine win over Andreas Seppi to reach the Oeiras final on Saturday.

Top seed David Ferrer reached the Portugal Open semi-finals on Friday before joining the tributes to ATP chief Brad Drewett who lost his brave battle against motor neurone disease.

Stanislas Wawrinka lost to Juan Martin del Potro in the 2012 semi-finals. Can he go one better this year? World No.

Stanislas Wawrinka struggled to set up a Portugal Open quarter-final against the host nation's man of the moment, with the Swiss second seed forced to fight through for a 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over Albert Ramos on Thursday.

With the tours active at four stops in Europe and Northern Africa last week - Stuttgart and Marrakech for the women, Barcelona and Bucharest for the men - there was no shortage of combustible kinetics during the week that was.

France's Gilles Simon notched a "sweet sixteen" win at the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy event in Bucharest.

Eighth seed Viktor Troicki reached his first ATP World Tour quarter-final of the season on Wednesday as he defeated Tobias Kamke of Germany 6-4, 6-2 at the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy .

Grigor Dimitrov had no trouble getting past Florian Mayer to earn a spot in the Monte Carlo quarterfinals.