World number eight Robin Soderling registered his first ATP World Tour victory of 2010 at the ABN Amro tournament in Rotterdam.

The Swede enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2009 but, suffering from elbow tendinitis, crashed out in the first round of the Chennai Open and the Australian Open last month.

He was a late entry into the Rotterdam event and it looked as though his poor run would continue when he lost the opening set to Florent Serra but he came through strongly in the end to triumph 4-6 6-4 6-1.

Germany's Florian Mayer needed nearly three hours to defeat Janko Tipsarevic 6-3 6-7 (6/8) 7-6 (8/6) while Andreas Seppi of Italy saw off qualifier Stephane Bohli 6-1 7-5.

Holland's Igor Sijsling came from a set down to win a tight battle against Germany's Mischa Zverev 6-7 (2/7) 6-3 7-5.

Zverev, who has yet to get beyond the first round at any tournament this year, edged the first set on the tie-break, but Sijsling took the second set and claimed a crucial break at 5-5 in the deciding set before serving out the match.

In the day's other game fifth seed Thomas Robredo recorded a 7-6 (7/4) 6-4 win over Robin Haase.

The Spaniard only managed to convert two of seven break points against his Dutch opponent, but they were enough to carry him into the second round.