ADELAIDE, Australia -- The AAPT Championships lost three of its top four seeds Wednesday, with South African Wayne Ferreira leading the exodus from the hardcourt event.

Ferreira, the top seed, lost in the first round for the second consecutive year when he fell to Argentine Franco Sqauillari, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2. The match was postponed from Tuesday due to rain.

"I didn't really feel like I played that badly," Ferreira said. "I had a break up in the first, didn't play a good game, and lost my serve. Overall, I felt OK, a little bit slow. The wind was a little difficult but obviously I can get better. It's always been very difficult for me coming back after a break, that first match."

Squillari did not win a title last year, with his best result a runner-up effort at Sopot, Poland last July.

"I started very well beating the No. 1 seed; it gives me a lot of confidence for the rest of the week," he said. "Beating Ferreira on a hard court is very good for me. I've been practicing so hard for five weeks in Argentina and that helped me be strong on the court."

Squillari will next play Richard Krajicek of the Netherlands in the second round. The 1996 Wimbledon champion, who is trying to come back from an elbow injury, posted a 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 victory over Australian Scott Draper.

"A couple of weeks before Wimbledon I was still struggling a lot, but I told my coach (Australian Rohan Goetzke), if I don't make the American summer, I basically said we would stop," Krajicek said. "I always had the feeling that if I stop with my coach, I basically say goodbye to top tennis. I said I was going to take off until the end of the year and if the elbow still wasn't good, then I'd retire.

"But now there hasn't been a day yet when I'd have to hold back. I could do everything I wanted to in the end (on Wednesday)."

French teenager Richard Gasquet rallied past countryman Arnaud Di Pasquale, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, to claim the second main draw ATP victory of his career and advanced to the second round.

Gasquet, 16, won two Furtures titles, one Challenger crown and the U.S. Open junior tournament last season. He became the youngest player to qualify for a Tennis Masters Series event last May at Monte Carlo when he was 15 years, 10 months. Gasquet beat Squillari in the first round to become the youngest player to win a tour-level main draw match since Tommy Ho at Rye Brook in 1988.

In second-round action, Anthony Dupuis of France upset second seed Max Mirnyi of Belarus, 7-6 (7-3), 6-3; Russian Nikolay Davydenko ousted fourth-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (11-9); fifth-seeded Mariano Zabaleta of Argenina topped Martin Verkerk of the Netherlands, 6-4, 6-4; and Romanian Adriana Voinea dispatched American Alex Kim, 6-4, 6-1.

The AAPT Championships, which began in 1990, offers $52,000 and 35 points toward the ATP Champions Race to the winner.