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| November 1, 2005 | Tuesday | Ramzan 27, 1426 |
Rusedski sails through Paris injury jinx
PARIS, Oct 31: Greg Rusedski and Feliciano Lopez struck a blow for the dying art of serve and volley at the injury-jinxed Paris Masters on Monday as the 2,082,500-euro tournament saw two more players limp out of action.
Britain’s Rusedski, the 1998 champion here, eased past Italian qualifier Andreas Seppi 6-3, 6-4 while fellow left-hander Lopez, a Spaniard who has no fear of the net, saw off Belgium’s Xavier Malisse 4-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-4.
Romania’s Victor Hanescu, meanwhile, was trailing 4-1 to Serb qualifier Novak Djokovic when he called it quits after just 19 minutes suffering from a stomach strain.
Second seed is Argentina’s Guillermo Coria who is battling countrymen David Nalbandian and Gaston Gaudio as well as Russia’s Nikolay Davydenko and Croatia’s Ivan Ljubicic for the remaining two places at the season-ending Masters Cup in Shanghai next month.
Federer, Nadal, Hewitt, Safin, Agassi as well as Roddick have already made sure of their spots in the eight-man field in China.
Also going through to the second round on Monday were Belgian qualifier Kristof Vliegen who defeated compatriot Christophe Rochus 3-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 and Tomas Berdych who won an all-Czech tussle seeing off Jiri Novak 7-5, 6-3.
Swiss number two Stanislas Wawrinka, a lucky loser, beat France’s Florent Serra 6-3, 6-4 while Russia’s Dimitry Tursunov, became the fourth qualifier to make it through, with a 6-1, 6-2 win over experienced American Vince Spadea.
Results:
Tommy Haas (Germany) bt Andrei Pavel (Romania) 7-6(6) 6-4; Dmitry Tursunov (Russia) bt Vince Spadea (United States) 6-1 6-2; Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) bt Florent Serra (France) 6-3 6-4; Novak Djokovic (Serbia and Montenegro) bt Victor Hanescu (Romania) 4-1 (Hanescu retired); Feliciano Lopez (Spain) bt Xavier Malisse (Belgium) 4-6 7-6 6-4; Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) bt Jiri Novak (Czech Republic) 7-5 6-3; Kristof Vliegen (Belgium) bt Christophe Rochus (Belgium) 3-6 7-6 6-2; Greg Rusedski (Britain) bt Andreas Seppi (Italy) 6-3 6-4.—Agencies
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