Sportmaster International

Murray beat Tursunov in round one, while Simon beat Malisse

The British 15th seed, who turns 21 on Thursday, faces the Frenchman, 35th in the world rankings, on Wednesday.Simon, 23, won their only previous match, also on clay, beating Murray 6-1 1-6 6-3 in a rain-interrupted contest at last year’s Rome Masters.The winner will face Nadal - if Spain’s world number two sees off the challenge of Italian Potito Starace.Wednesday’s second-round matches also see

Roger Federer face Jarkko Niemenen, and world number three Novak Djokovic take on Juan Ignacio Chela.French eighth seed Richard Gasquet crashed out on Tuesday, beaten 6-3 6-2 by Italy’s Andreas Seppi.Nikolay Davydenko, the Russian fourth seed, progressed to the third round with a 6-4 6-1 win over Ivan Ljubicic, while Spanish fifth seed cruised past Czech Ivo Minar 6-3 6-3. 606: DEBATE Murray has the chance to really make some progress in the rankings with no points to defend Mr Invisible Jamie Murray and Max Mirnyi wasted a strong start to crash out of the doubles in Hamburg at the first hurdle.The Scot and his Belarussian playing partner needed just a single break of serve to take the opening set 7-5 against Michael Llodra and Julien Benneteau.But the French duo hit back to break their opponents three times and claim the second 6-3.They carried that form into the decisive tie-break, winning 10-7 to seal a second-round meeting with Jonas Bjorkman and Kevin Ullyett.