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 | Roddick and Mardy Fish dropped in Madrid3-05-2011 |
Former No. 1 men's ranking professionals Andy Roddick exited in the first round at Madrid Masters Series, which has a prize fund 3.7 million dollars. The American, who is seeded 12th here, but two years ago dropped in the same competition by Roger Federer in the quarterfinals, now stumbled against another qualifier.
It is 160-ranked Chipola Flavio, who entered qualifying, beat Roddick with 6:4, 6:7 (7:9), 6:3. In the duel between two Americans did the 11 th-seeded Mardy Fish was eliminated by John Isnar with a 6:7 (5:7), 6:4, 6:7 (3:7), BTA writes.
Timo qualifier de Bakker of the Netherlands also keep going after the discarded former No. 1 player with a wild-card Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain 2:6, 7:5, 6:4. World No. 1 Rafael Nadal will now be included in the second round of the tournament where they will face Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus, who was eliminated today, Colombian qualifier Alejandro Falla 6:3, 3:6, 7:6 (7:5 ).
In the women's tournament in Madrid, which has a prize fund 3.5 million euros in the third round continued Russians Vera Zvonareva (No. 2-seeded) and Maria Sharapova (No. 4) and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. Zvonareva and Sharapova eliminated other Russians, and seeded Elena Vesnina two hits with 0:6, 6:3, 6:3, Sharapova and Elena Makarova be 6:3, 3:6, 6:1. Victoria Azarenka handle oriented Swedish Sofia Arvidsson with 6:1, 6:1.