Metz, France -- (Sports Network) - Fourth-seeded French crowd favorite Paul- Henri Mathieu was among Thursday's second-round winners at the $540,000 Open de Moselle tennis tournament.

Mathieu whipped qualifier and fellow Frenchman Romain Jouan 6-3, 6-3 on the indoor hardcourt at Les Arenes. The 23-year-old Jouan was making his ATP debut this week.

Up next for Mathieu will be dangerous Serbian Janko Tipsarevic.

Meanwhile, seventh-seeded Czech Radek Stepanek outlasted French crowd favorite Michael Llodra 6-7 (5-7), 6-1, 7-6 (7-0).

In some other second-round action, French qualifier Adrian Mannarino topped South African qualifier Rik De Voest 6-4, 7-5, Marc Gicquel saved some set points in the second set en route to handling wild card and fellow Frenchman Nicolas Mahut 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) and Argentine Eduardo Schwank outlasted Romanian Victor Hanescu 7-6 (8-6), 6-7 (5-7), 6-3. The 20-year-old Mannarino is playing in only his second ATP-level event.

Friday's other quarterfinal matches will pit fifth-seeded Russian Dmitry Tursunov against former world No. 1 Spaniard Carlos Moya, Stepanek versus Schwank and the upstart Mannarino against his countryman Gicquel.

The 2008 titlist here will take home $85,000.