Euro round-up: Raonic, Bautista Agut out early

Milos Raonic suffered yet another premature exit at the Swiss Indoors, while Jurgen Melzer made short work of Roberto Bautista Agut in Vienna.

Stan through, Raonic beaten in Basel

On a tough day for seeded players in the Swiss Indoors first round, Stan Wawrinka rallied to beat 119th-ranked fellow Swiss Marco Chiudinelli 6-7 (1) 6-1 6-4.

Top-seeded Wawrinka advanced after second-seeded Milos Raonic and sixth-seeded Grigor Dimitrov both let one-set leads slip and exited early.

Wawrinka ended his own streak of four straight first-round losses in the hometown tournament of Roger Federer, whose season-ending injury ruled him out for the first time since 2005.

World No. 3 Wawrinka clinched victory with his 16th ace on his fifth match point chance against his Davis Cup teammate Chiudinelli.

He next plays qualifier Donald Young of the United States.

The bottom half of the draw opened up Tuesday after Canada’s Raonic lost to Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania, a player ranked 87 places below him.

The fourth-ranked Raonic took the first set against his 91st-ranked opponent before falling to a 3-6 6-3 6-3 loss.

The 26-year-old Berankis now has two career wins against top 10 players, after also beating Raonic indoors in Moscow two years ago.

Dimitrov of Bulgaria let 37th-ranked Gilles Muller of Luxembourg fight back for a 6-7 (9) 6-4 6-4 win after taking only one of his 10 break point chances against the 33-year-old left-hander.

Melzer ousts Bautista Agut in Vienna

Jurgen Melzer has upset fourth-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut 6-3 7-5 in the first round of the ATP tournament in Vienna.

The Austrian two-time event winner, who has dropped to 417th after a five-month layoff following shoulder surgery, played only his sixth match of the season at ATP level.

In front of a home crowd of 7500, Melzer broke the 14th-ranked Bautista Agut when the Spaniard served for the second set at 5-4, and added another break to close out the win.

Melzer, who won the event in 2009 and 2010, joined fellow Austrian Dominic Thiem in the second round.

The third-seeded Thiem defeated Jurgen’s younger brother, Gerald Melzer, 6-0 6-3.

Thiem next plays Viktor Troicki of Serbia, who converted the only break point in the final set to complete a 4-6 7-6 (5) 7-5 comeback win over Kevin Anderson of South Africa.

Defending champion David Ferrer had to play only five games to advance to the second round after Kyle Edmund pulled out with a hip injury.

Ferrer next plays Joao Sousa of Portugal, who led Pablo Cuevas 6-3 3-0 when the Uruguayan pulled out with an apparent knee injury.

Also, 2011 champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga had 11 aces and avoided break points while beating German qualifier Benjamin Becker 6-3 6-4.

Also, Feliciano Lopez, who won his maiden title in Vienna in 2004, saved a match point before taking the last three games in a 6-4 2-6 7-5 win over seventh-seeded Lucas Pouille.

Lopez will play John Isner of the US in the second round.