Marcel Granollers made his mark on the XL Bermuda Open last night with a comfortable 6-3, 6-2 win over Diego Hartfield.

Granollers, who came into the match off the back of beating James Blake in the Houston Open on Sunday, never looked troubled by his Argentine opponent during the hour-and-a-half that the pair were on court.

The Spaniard is naturally full of confidence having beaten the world number nine last week, and played a tempo of tennis that will be hard to beat this week.

Unlike many in the opening two days he came to the net frequently, attacked often, and played some outrageous shots at the net that only a player completely at ease with his game can do.

Hartfield can consider himself slightly unlucky to have come across an opponent in this kind of form in the first round of the tournament.

The Argentinean did not play badly, and but for a couple of questionable line calls may well have taken the game to a third set.

Of the two Hartfield started the first set the stronger as Granollers struggled to find his range with his first serve, but once the Spaniard settled down, his management of the court gave Hartfield problems.

The attacking nature of Granollers play put pressure on his opponents serve from the off and he eventually broke him in the fourth game to go 3-1 ahead.

That should have been that for the set, but even then Hartfield had chances to level.

He was the beneficiary of a dodgy call in the seventh game, when at 30-15 a Granollers forehand was called out.

The Spaniard allowed the decision to affect his game, and Hartfield broke back, only to fail to hold his own serve in the next game.

The second set followed a similar pattern. Granollers broke in the first game, and then a bad line call at 40-30 allowed him to hold his serve to go 2-0 in front.

Hartfield was always chasing the match at this point, but despite holding his serve couldn't break his opponent.

In the sixth game, any chance that Hartfield might have had disappeared with another bad call.

The Argentinean slipped in the middle of a rally, still managed to get his return over the net and could then only watch in anguish as a Granollers volley, which appeared to go long, was called in.

And that was that. Hartfield's head went down, his luck, what little there was left deserted him, and Granollers completed a comfortable win to set up a second round match this afternoon against Harel Levy.