Third seed Mikhail Youzhny has eased into the second round of the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow with a straight sets victory over Argentina's Horacio Zeballos.
The Russian world number 30, who reached the final of the Japan Open earlier this month, next faces Italian Potito Starace or Russian Evgeny Donskoy for a place in the quarter-finals.
In-form Russian Nikolay Davydenko, who won the Shanghai Masters on Sunday to climb to number six in the world, heads the field at the annual indoor tournament in Moscow and will take on compatriot Marat Safin in the first round.
On the women's side, fifth seed Nadia Petrova crushed fellow Russian Yana Buchina 6-2 6-love to reach the second round where she will face Ukraine's Alona Bondarenko, a straight sets winner over Russian Anna Chakvetadze.
