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 | 21 years old Pole was the biggest surprise on the second day of the tournament in Paris31-10-2012 |
The Pole Jerzy Yanovich was the biggest surprise on the second day of the tennis tournament in Hall of the series "Masters" 1000 in Paris with prize fund $ 2.4 million. In match of the the second round the 21 years old Jerzy Yanovich beat seeded 13th in the main event tournament Croat Marin Cilic with 7:6 / 8:6 / and 6:2.
Michael Llodra / France / in meeting from the first round defeated Daniel Gimeno-Traver / Spain / with 7:5 and 6:3. At the other French-Spanish match in the first round of the Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu beat the Spaniard Roberto Bautista-Agut with 6:4 and 7:5.
Paul-Henri Mathieu, who was semifinalist of the tournament in Basel last week, played with the Spanish one of the longest games this season - after fifteen equalization Bautista won the game and tied 5:5 in the second set, but then quickly lost the next two games.
In the third French-Spanish match in the first round in the multifunctional hall "Paris-Bercy" the Frenchman Jeremy Chardy with little effort win over the Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez with 6:0, and 6:3.
Also in match of the first round Igor Siysling / Netherlands / defeated Alexander Dolgopolov / Ukraine / with 6:4 and 6:2, and Sam Querrey / USA / beat Fernando Verdasco / Spain / 6:1 and 1:1 and rejection of Verdasco .