New Haven, CT (My Sportsbook) - Top seeds Nikolay Davydenko and Fernando Verdasco were a pair of second-round winners Tuesday, while two-time finalist Mardy Fish was sent packing at the $750,000 Pilot Pen Tennis event, a final U.S. Open tune-up.

The Russian Davydenko got past American Robert Kendrick 7-6 (12-10), 6-3, while the Spanish Verdasco whipped Chilean Paul Capdeville 6-0, 6-3 on the hardcourts at Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale.

Up next for the 2006 New Haven titlist Davydenko will be crafty Frenchman Fabrice Santoro, while Verdasco will encounter Italian Andreas Seppi.

In a battle of Americans, wild card Rajeev Ram upset Fish 6-3, 6-3. Ram fired 10 aces to down Fish in 1 hour, 12 minutes. Croat Marin Cilic bested Fish in last year's final here. Fish was also the runner-up here in 2007.

Another upset came when Argentine slugger Jose Acasuso took out third-seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-5).

Meanwhile, seventh-seeded Russian Igor Andreev whipped American Kevin Kim 6-3, 6-1 and eighth-seeded Romanian Victor Hanescu outlasted Serbian Janko Tipsarevic 6-4, 6-7 (8-10), 6-3 on Day 3 here.

Mild upsets came when German Bjorn Phau erased ninth-seeded Spaniard Nicolas Almagro 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, Frenchman Florent Serra rallied to down 10th-seeded Jeremy Chardy 6-7 (8-10), 7-6 (7-4), 6-1, Portuguese qualifier Frederico Gil grounded 12th-seeded German Philipp Petzschner 6-7 (2-7), 7-6 (10-8), 6-3, and Italian Simone Bolelli doused 13th-seeded German Andreas Beck 6-4, 6-4.

In other action involving seeds, No. 11 Austrian Jurgen Melzer topped qualifier Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay 6-2, 3-0, retired; No. 14 Russian Igor Kunitsyn dismissed American wild card Taylor Dent 6-3, 6-4; a No. 15 Santoro stifled Italian Potito Starace 7-5, 6-0; and a No. 16 Seppi held off Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 7-5.

One other second-round result saw Argentine Leonardo Mayer stop Belgian lucky-loser Olivier Rochus 6-0, 6-4.

This week's winner will collect $94,000.