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Youzhny takes first-round win in Gstaad

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 00:24 by Prince damin

Gstaad, Switzerland -- No. 1-seeded Mikhail Youzhny on Tuesday ripped past Marc Gicquel and into the second round of the Allianz Suisse Open tennis tournament in Switzerland.

Youzhny needed just 73 minutes to defeat Gicquel 6-2, 6-2 on the strength of five service breaks in eight receiving games. Youzhny won 59 percent of the points in the match, including 53 percent off Gicquel's serve.

Second-seeded Nicolas Almagro was pushed much harder, taking more than 2 hours and three sets to get past Marcel Granollers 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 6-3. Almagro got a decisive break in the third set -- only the fourth overall in the match.

Roddick safely into third round

Fri, 09/04/2009 - 10:32 by preet_20

New York, Sept. 4: Andy Roddick completed another good day for seeded players at the U.S. Open Thursday by coasting to a victory over Marc Gicquel.

No. 4 seed Novak Djokovic and eighth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko joined the fifth-seeded Roddick in the third round.

Roddick defeated Gicquel in a late-night match 6-1, 6-4, 6-4. That set up a third-round meeting with John Isner, who advanced Thursday by defeating Marsel Ilhan 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7-1). Roddick has won both his previous meetings with Isner.

Djokovic moved into the third round with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 decision over Carsten Bell and Davydenko had no trouble in disposing of Jan Hernych 6-4, 6-1, 6-2.

Querrey first to reach third round

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:04 by preet_20

New Haven, Conn. Aug. 25: Sam Querrey, who at No. 6 was the only seeded player in action Monday, survived a three-set match to reach the third round of the Pilot Pen in New Haven, Conn.

Querrey outlasted Marc Gicquel 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 6-2 to become the first player to earn a berth in the tournament's third round. He set up an encounter with either ninth-seeded Nicolas Almagro or Bjorn Phau.

Among the first-round surprises Monday were Frederico Gil's 6-4, 6-3 decision over Marcos Baghdatis and a win for Rajeev Ram over Nicolas Lapentti 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (7-3).

Top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko will be in action Tuesday for a second-round match with Robert Kendrick. No. 2 seed Fernando Verdasco will take on Paul Capdeville.

Copyright 2009 by United Press International.

Roddick records 500th career victory

Fri, 08/07/2009 - 10:19 by preet_20

Washington, Aug. 6: Andy Roddick picked up his 500th career victory Thursday, a win that moved him into the quarterfinals of the Legg Mason Classic.

Roddick, the top seed and a three-time winner of the event, survived a difficult battle with Sam Querrey 7-6 (7-4), 6-4. Querrey won last week's tour stop in Los Angeles.

The only other active players with 500 victories are Roger Federer, Carlos Moya and Lleyton Hewitt, who lost Thursday to second-seeded Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7-2).

Roddick's quarterfinal opponent will be Ivo Karlovic, who defeated Somdev Devvarman 7-5, 6-1. Del Potro will next meet Robin Soderling, who survived against Marc Gicquel 7-5, 5-7, 6-3.

American Sam Querry wins at Indy

Tue, 07/21/2009 - 10:21 by surajdogra

Indianapolis, July 20: Third-seeded American Sam Querrey was among Monday's first-round winners at the $450,000 Indianapolis Tennis Championships.

Querrey, 21, beat Frenchman Arnaud Clement 6-3, 6-4 in one hour, 13 minutes.

Querrey, who was making his first appearance since a runner-up finish in Newport two weeks ago, is a two-time Indianapolis semifinalist.

Seventh-seeded Marc Gicquel of France defeated Latvian Ernests Gulbis 6-2, 6-3 in just one hour and eighth-seeded Uzbekistan Denis Istomin beat American Kevin Kim, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Copyright 2009 by United Press International.

Federer wins, Djokovic out at French Open

Sun, 05/31/2009 - 10:09 by preet_20

Paris -- Three-time runner-up Roger Federer of Switzerland advanced but Novak Djokovic of Serbia lost in men's play Saturday at the French Open in Paris.

Federer, the second seed, rallied to beat Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

The fourth-seeded Djokovic lost 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to Germany's unheralded Philipp Kohlschreiber.

"What is disappointing was that I couldn't find the rhythm throughout the whole match," Djokovic said after his surprising loss. "I was trying not to be frustrated with a lot of unforced errors. Tried to be positive and just wait for the chances."