ATP Swiss Indoors: Stan Wawrinka rallies to stun wildcard Chiudinelli

Top seed Stan Wawrinka was forced to come from a set down against Swiss wildcard Marco Chiudinelli to book his place in the second round of the ATP Swiss Indoors Basle

Swiss Stan Wawrinka returns against compatriot Marco Chiudinelli during the Swiss Indoors tournament in Basel on Tuesday. Pic/AFP

Basle (Switzerland): Top seed Stan Wawrinka was forced to come from a set down against Swiss wildcard Marco Chiudinelli to book his place in the second round of the ATP Swiss Indoors Basle.

The Swiss World No. 3 lost the opening set on a tie-break against his 35-year-old countryman before coming back to win 6-7 (1/7), 6-1, 6-4 to secure a place against American qualifier Donald Young.

Marco Chiudinelli

Number two seed Milos Raonic, however, is out after the Canadian was beaten by a fightback from Lithuanian qualifier Ricardas Berankis, the World No. 91 who recorded a shock 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 win.

Grigor Dimitrov, the sixth seed from Bulgaria, was also on the end of an unexpected defeat, going down 6-7 (9/11), 6-4, 6-4 against Gilles Muller of Luxembourg. Elsewhere,
Florian Mayer of Germany beat France's Benoit Paire 6-1, 6-7 (2/7), 6-4, Spaniard Marcel Granollers defeated home hope Henri Laaksonen 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 and Italian Paolo Lorenzi knocked out Nicolas Mahut of France 6-4, 7-6, (7/4).

Fifth seed David Ferrer is through after British number two Kyle Edmund was forced to retire with injury when trailing 3-2 in the first set against the Spaniard.

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