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| July 26, 2007 | Thursday | Rajab 10, 1428 |
Roddick, Blake move ahead
INDIANAPOLIS, July 25: Defending champion James Blake and top seed Andy Roddick won their opening matches in straight sets at the Indianapolis Championships on Tuesday.
Second seed Blake beat 2002 Australian Open champion Thomas Johansson 7-5, 7-6 while Roddick, playing his first match since his five-set quarter-final loss to Frenchman Richard Gasquet at Wimbledon, passed wildcard Alex Kuznetsov 6-4, 6-0.
Tuesday’s results (prefix number denotes seeding):
First round: 1-Andy Roddick (US) beat Alex Kuznetsov (US) 6-4, 6-0; 2-James Blake (US) beat Thomas Johansson (Sweden) 7-5, 7-6 (11-9); 5-Ivo Karlovic (Croatia) beat A Sa (Brazil) 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-3); Kei Nishikori (Japan) beat Alejandro Falla (Colombia) 6-4, 6-3; Ricardo Mello (Brazil) beat Gael Monfils (France) 6-4, 6-4; 6-Lee Hyung-taik (South Korea) beat Donald Young (US) 6-2, 6-4; 4-Mardy Fish (US) beat Vince Spadea (US) 2-6, 7-5, 7-5; Igor Kunitsyn (Russia) beat Santiago Giraldo (Colombia) 6-2, 1-6, 7-5; Teimuraz Gabashvili (Russia) beat Rajeev Ram (US) 7-5, 3-6, 6-4; 3-Dmitry Tursunov (Russia) beat Michael Russell (US) 6-3, 7-5; Paul Goldstein (US) beat Robert Kendrick (US) 6-4, 6-4.
UMAG (Croatia): Four-time former winner Carlos Moya beat last year's champion Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 6-3, 6-2 to reach the second round of the Croatia Open on Tuesday.
The sixth-seeded Spaniard was one of four seeds to secure their place in the second round on the second day of the tournament. His compatriot David Ferrer, the fourth seed, defeated another Spaniard Albert Montanes 6-2, 6-2, while fifth-seeded Guillermo Canas from Argentina secured passage by beating Croat Roko Karanusic 6-3, 6-3.
Italy's Filippo Volandri also easily overcame Loukas Dlouhy from the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-1.
Tuesday’s results:
First round: Andrei Pavel (Romania) beat 3-Ivan Ljubicic (Croatia) 7-6 (7-5), 7-5; Robin Haase (Netherlands) beat Felix Mantilla (Spain) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4; 6-Carlos Moya (Spain) beat Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) 6-3, 6-2; 4-David Ferrer (Spain) beat Albert Montanes (Spain) 6-2, 6-2; Mischa Zverev (Germany) beat Florent Serra (France) 6-0, 7-5; 7-Filippo Volandri (Italy) beat Lukas Dlouhy (Czech Republic) 6-2, 6-1; Viktor Troicki (Serbia) beat Predrag Rusevski (Macedonia) 6-3, 1-6, 6-4; 5-Guillermo Canas (Argentina) beat Roko Karanusic (Croatia) 6-3, 6-3; Victor Hanescu (Romania) beat 8-Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) 2-0 – Tipsarevic retired; Jose Acasuso (Argentina) beat Edouard Roger-Vasselin (France) 6-2, 6-0.
STANFORD (California): Tatiana Golovin and Shahar Peer led a trio of seeds into the second round of the Stanford Classic on Tuesday after the pair recorded straight sets victories in their opening encounters.
French sixth seed Golovin eased to a 6-2, 6-2 win over Ukraine's Viktoriya Kutuzova while Israel's Peer, the fifth seed, got off to a slow start before recovering from a 4-0 opening set deficit to defeat France's Camille Pin 7-6, 6-2.
Next up for Golovin is India's Sania Mirza, who rallied from a set and a break down to overcome Japan's Akiko Morigami 4-6, 7-5, 7-6.
Tuesday’s results:
First round: 5-Shahar Peer (Israel) beat Camille Pin (France) 7-6 (7-5), 6-2; Sania Mirza (India) beat Akiko Morigami (Japan) 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (5); 6-Tatiana Golovin (France) beat Viktoriya Kutuzova (Ukraine)
6-2, 6-2; 8-Sybille Bammer (Austria) beat Ai Sugiyama (Japan) 6-4, 6-2; Yaroslava Shvedova (Russia) beat Julia Vakulenko (Ukraine) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; Maria Kirilenko (Russia) beat Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 3-6, 7-5, 6-4; Olga Govortsova (Belarus) beat Catalina Castano (Colombia) 6-4, 6-2.
—Reuters
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