Fourth-seeded Victor Hanescu beat Rainer Schuettler Wednesday 6-2, 6-1 and easily advanced to the quarterfinals at the Mercedes Cup tennis tournament. The surprisingly lopsided first-round match lasted just 56 minutes, with the 27-year-old Hanescu converting 4-of-8 break points and surrendered just 10 points on his serve. Elsewhere, Martin Vassallo Arguello rallied to beat Andrey Golubev 3-6, 6-3, 6-0 and Paul-Henri Mathieu edged Mikhail Youzhny 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-4). With his victory Wednesday, Mathieu broke a string of four straight losses against Youzhny. He faced a service break in set No.

No. 2-seeded Novak Djokovic rallied for a three-set win Thursday in the second-round of the $1 million Gerry Weber Open tennis tournament in Germany. Djokovic dropped a tight first set before beginning to solve the game of Florent Serra and getting a 5-7, 7-5, 6-1 win.

Tommy Haas was among four German players who posted second-round upsets Wednesday at the $1 million Gerry Weber Open tennis tournament in Germany. Haas knocked off fourth-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) behind a solid serving game.

Nicolas Kiefer and Mischa Zverev posted a dramatic win Friday to put Germany in the finals of the World Team Championship. Germany will take on Serbia in the finals Saturday in a best-of-three match format. Rainer Schuettler of Germany will meet Viktor Troicki in one of the singles matches and German Philipp Kohlschreiber will face Janko Tipsarevic.

Nicolas Kiefer and Mischa Zverev gave Germany a 2-1 win over the United States Monday in the ATP World Team Championship. Kiefer-Zverev beat Americans Mardy Fish and Sam Querrey 4-6, 6-4, 10-1 on the second day of play in the tennis tournament. Earlier Monday, German Philipp Kohlschreiber defeated American Robby Ginepri 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-4), 6-0.