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Gimeno-Traver claims first-round upset

Tue, 02/16/2010 - 22:45 by Inderjit Singh

Buenos Aires -- Daniel Gimeno-Traver knocked off third-seeded Nicolas Almagro in opening-round play Monday at the Copa Telmex tournament in Argentina.

Rain caused one match at the clay-court tournament in Buenos Aires to be suspended and another to be postponed to Tuesday. Of the three that did get completed Monday, Gimeno-Traver's was the most eye-catching.

Gimeno-Traver upending his Spanish compatriot Almagro 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 in 2 1/2 hours. Almargo failed to convert a pair of break-point chances in the second set and Gimeno-Traver battled back to even the match. Gimeno-Traver was much the stronger in the third set, winning 62 percent of the points and losing a mere five points in five service games.

Gimeno-Traver claims on first-round upset

Tue, 02/16/2010 - 21:54 by Inderjit Singh

Buenos Aires -- Daniel Gimeno-Traver knocked off third-seeded Nicolas Almagro in opening-round play Monday at the Copa Telmex tournament in Argentina.

Rain caused one match at the clay-court tournament in Buenos Aires to be suspended and another to be postponed to Tuesday. Of the three that did get completed Monday, Gimeno-Traver's was the most eye-catching.

Gimeno-Traver upending his Spanish compatriot Almagro 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 in 2 1/2 hours. Almargo failed to convert a pair of break-point chances in the second set and Gimeno-Traver battled back to even the match. Gimeno-Traver was much the stronger in the third set, winning 62 percent of the points and losing a mere five points in five service games.

Murray, Ferrer advance at Valencia

Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:10 by shalini.bahadur

Valencia, Spain -- Two favorites, top-seeded Andy Murray and reigning champion David Ferrer, advanced in Tuesday's opening round of the Valencia Open in Spain.

Murray, the runner-up in September's U.S. Open, dispatched Spanish wild card Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-3, 6-1, taking only an hour to finish the match. He broke Gimeno-Traver's serve five times in eight tries.

The fourth-ranked Murray didn't appear to be rusty after recovering from an injury to his left wrist and playing for the first time since dropping a fourth-round match at the U.S. Open. He'll next face Argentine Leonardo Mayer.

Davydenko, Ferrer win Croatia Open matches

Thu, 07/30/2009 - 11:05 by surajdogra

Umag, Croatia. July 29: Nikolay Davydenko and David Ferrer, the top two seeds, won their first-round matches Wednesday at the Croatia Open in Umag.

The top-seeded Davydenko easily beat Spaniard Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-2, 6-2. The second-seeded Ferrer had a much more difficult time subduing Austrian Daniel Koellerer, finally downing him 6-1, 6-7 (2-7), 6-3 6-1, 6-7 (2-7), 6-3.

Robredo leads Swedish Open winners

Thu, 07/16/2009 - 12:15 by preet_20

Bastad, Sweden July 15: Reigning champion Tommy Robredo led Wednesday's winners at the Swedish Open tennis tournament in Bastad, Sweden.

Robredo, the No. 3 seed and only player in the 28-man field ever to have won this event, beat unheralded Peter Luczak 6-2, 6-3 in a second-round match. He next faces Teimuraz Gabashvili in the quarterfinals Friday.

Gabashvili was a 6-3, 6-2 winner over Bjorn Phau.

In other matches Wednesday, fifth-seeded Nicolas Almagro downed Marat Safin 6-3, 7-6 (8-6), and Daniel Gimeno-Traver topped Frederico Gil 6-1, 6-4.

The tournament's top-four seeds all received byes into the second round, leaving No. 1 seed Fernando Verdasco to begin his Bastad campaign Thursday against Daniel Koellerer.