Stockholm: Gael Monfils of France was the only seeded player to advance during a day of upsets in the second round of the Stockholm Open on Thursday.
The top-seeded Monfils beat Bernard Tomic of Australia 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-4 and will next face fifth-seeded South African Kevin Anderson in the quarterfinals.
Unseeded Argentine David Nalbandian took the most emphatic victory of the day, beating seventh-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia 6-1, 6-1. He will next face American James Blake, who beat second-seeded Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina, the 2009 U.S. Open champion, on Wednesday.
Jarkko Nieminen of Finland upset third-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 6-3, 6-4 in the second round, while fourth-seeded Juan Ignacio Chela also exited.
Nieminen set himself up for a quarterfinal against Tobias Kamke of Germany, who won his second-round match against countryman Sebastian Rieschick 6-3, 6-1.
Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria beat Chela 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 and will play the sixth-seeded Milos Raonic of Canada in the quarterfinals.
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