COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil (AP) -Top-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrero won his first match of the year in a two-hour struggle with Argentina's Eduardo Schwank 7-6 (4), 6-3 at the Brazil Open on Tuesday.

Ferrero, who'd made opening-round exits at Auckland and the Australian Open, had to break Schwank four times to win the second set. The Argentine reached the quarterfinals last week at Santiago.

Ferrero, the 2007 runner-up, moved onto a second-round match with Chile's Nicolas Massu, the 2006 champion who beat Brazilian qualifier Rogerio Dutra Da Silva 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

Fourth-seeded Igor Andreev also posted his first win of 2010 when he beat Potito Starace of Italy 6-2, 6-2. Andreev also finally won at his third attempt in the Brazil Open.

Thomaz Bellucci, fresh from his second career title on Sunday in Santiago, hit 10 aces in beating Brazilian countryman Thiago Alves 6-2, 7-5. Bellucci reached the final here last year.

Sixth-seeded Pablo Cuevas won 6-4, 6-3 against Filippo Volandri of Italy, and Juan Ignacio Chela, who has reached at least the quarterfinals three times, outlasted Peter Luczak of Australia 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-4. Seventh-seeded Horacio Zeballos retired with a hip injury while trailing Marcel Granollers of Spain 7-5, 3-0.

Other winners included qualifiers Portugal's Rui Machado, Argentina's Carlos Berlocq and Italy's Fabio Fognini.