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Seeded players Thiemo de Bakker of the Netherlands and Viktor Troicki of Serbia had straight-set wins in the first round of the Thailand Open on Monday.
The sixth-seeded De Bakker shook off a shaky start to beat Marc Lopez of Spain 7-5, 6-0. He will meet Daniel Brands of Germany, who downed Illya Marchenko of Ukraine 6-3, 6-4.
The seventh-seeded Troicki, the 2009 finalist, defeated Marco Chiudinelli of Switzerland 6-3, 6-1.
In Monday's other first-round match, Florent Serra of France rallied to beat Teymuraz Gabashvili of Russia 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-4.
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