[color:7376=#000]Czech Radek Stepanek reached the second round of the Paris Bercy International Tennis Tournament, the last sessions of the nine major of the season in the amount of prize money worth 2.75 million euros, beating American Michael Contact 6-2, 6-0 in the first round.
Stepanek will meet in the next round with the Spaniard Nicolas Almagro XIV, who was relieved from contesting the first round as the 16 top seeds.
The Serbian Novak Djokovic crowned champion of last year's session after his victory over Frenchman Gael Monfils 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (7-3) in the final, after ousted in the semi-final Spaniard Rafael Nadal largely absent from this year's session because of injury.
And type of Djokovic in the second place in the session this year, which begins a campaign to defend its title to face Argentine Juan Monaco or American Sam Querrey, who meet on Tuesday.
Seeded Italian Fabio Finuini beating German Michael Berrer 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, and German Benjamin Becker beat Uzbekistan Uzbekistan's Denis 6-4, 6-4 and Frenchman Arnaud Clement, beating Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-7 (8 - 10), 7-6 (9-7), 6-3 and Finn Jarkko Nieminen by beating Belgian Xavier Malisse 6-4, 6-3 and Frenchman Michael Llodra, beating Italy's Potito Starace 6-4, 6-1, and Colombia's Santiago Giraldo win over Dutch Timo de Becker 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 7-5 and Frenchman Richard Gasquet beating compatriot Nicolas Mahut 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (9-7).
In the next round, playing Finuini with Spaniard David Ferrer, VII, and Baker with Monfils XII, and Clement with Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, VI, and Nieminen, with American Andy Roddick, eighth, and Llodra with American John Isner XVI, and Giraldo with Austrian Jurgen Melzer atheist century, and Gasquet with Roger Federer first.