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 | | Murray has successfully begun his title defense3.10.2012 |
The Briton Andy Murray has successfully begun his title defense on the tennis tournament on hard courts in Tokyo, Japan with a prize of U.S. $ 1,280,000
1st-seeded Murray beat the Croat Ivo Karlovic with 7:6 (7), 6:4 after 98 minutes game in his first game since winning trophy of the U.S. Open last month.
208-inch Karlovic entered the main draw as a "lucky loser" from qualifying after the refusing of Gael Monfils (France) because of an injury. He scored 18 aces but failed to reach any opportunity for a breakthrough and logical losses.
For a place in the quarterfinals Murray will face Lukas Latsko (Slovakia).
Seeded sixth Raonich Milan (Canada) scored 10 aces in defeating Czech veteran Radek Stepanek with 6:4, 6:4.
The next rival of Raonich will be Viktor Troicki (Serbia).
Eighth placed Kei Nishikori won difficult against Go Soeda in a completely Japanese clash with 4:6, 6:2, 6:3 after two hours and a half game.
So Nishikori expects in the second round the Spaniard Tommy Robredo, who defeated Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) with 6:2, 6:4. The big surprise of the first round served participating with "wild card" representative of the hosts Tatsuma Ito.
Ito scored 14 aces and eliminated fifth-seeded Nicolas Almagro (Spain) with a 7:6 (4), 7:6 (5).
In the second round Japanese will face qualifier Dmitry Tursunov (Russia), who deal with Bernard Tomic (Australia) with 6:4, 7:5.
The best Bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrov, who passed qualifying of the tournament, started his participating in the main draw tomorrow against fourth-scheme Juan Monaco (Argentina).
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