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Fish Nets Robredo, Federer v Magician Next at Australian Open
Posted on January 16, 2008
Only two lower-seeded upsets Wednesday at the Australian Open, where all four Top 10 seeds in action moved into the third round in straight sets.
World No. 2 Rafael Nadal led the proceedings with a 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 dismantling of Frenchman Florent Serra. Other Top 10-seeded winners were (4) Nikolay Davydenko (d. Nicolas Mahut), (6) Andy Roddick (d. Michael Berrer), and (8) Richard Gasquet (d. Feliciano Lopez).
"He was trying to hit the ball hard around the court and it was a good workout ahead of my next match," said Roddick, watched by coach Jimmy Connors.
Causing a ruckus were hot-handed American Mardy Fish, who allowed No. 11 seed Tommy Robredo only six games, and Frenchman Marc Gicquel, who won when No. 26 seed Stan Wawrinka retired in the fourth set with injury.
"Tommy makes you play a lot of balls," Fish said. "This was definitely one of the best matches I've played at a Grand Slam. In a pretty good spot, considering I've got quite a few points to defend here and I just tried to shorten the points as much as I could. I was real successful doing that. I mean, the [Ivan] Ljubicic match was real nice last year, but I'm not sure I played quite as good as I did today."
Nadal will next meet No. 28 seed Gilles Simon, who on Wednesday crushed former runner-up Rainer Schuettler 6-2, 6-2, 6-1.
Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the earlier conqueror of seed Andy Murray, continued his fine form with a straight-set win over American Sam Warburg to move into the third round.
Thursday's highlights at the Aussie Open are (1) Roger Federer vs. Fabrice "The Magician" Santoro, former No. 1 Marat Safin vs. (15) Marcos Baghdatis, rising Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro vs. (5) David Ferrer, (12) James Blake vs. Michael Russell in an all-American meeting, Korean upset specialist Hyung-Taik Lee vs. (7) Fernando Gonzalez, American Sam Querrey vs. Californi-Russian (32) Dmitry Tursunov, and (21) Juan Monaco vs. former NCAA champ Amer Delic.
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