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 | David Ferrer is ranked the third round of Masters Series in Madrid4-05-2011 |
Located in great shape David Ferrer is ranked the third round at Madrid Masters Series (3.7 million euros prize money) after losing a set but eventually won against the French qualifier Adrian Manarino with 7:5, 0:6, 6:0.
Sixth-seeded Ferrer, who reached last month to two-finals in Monte Carlo and Barcelona will play in the third round against the Ukrainian Sergio Stahivski.
The former No. 4-ranked Juan Martin del Potro, who is recovering from wrist surgery, overcame in the first round of the tournament Mikhail Youzhny (Russia), seeded 13, 6:1, 3:6, 6:3. In another match of the 2-th round did Juan Monaco (Argentina) eliminated ninth-seeded Gael Monfils (France), who was abandoned at 0:3 in the second set and lost with 2:6 in the first. Another Frenchman, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France), prevailed in the second round Pere Fish (Spain), 6:4, 6:2.
2-th and 3 th-seeded Novak Djokovic in the tournament (Serbia) and Roger Federer (Switzerland) are included in the race today.
Djokovic begins against Kevin Andensan from South Africa, which in turn eliminates the start Roshyu Olivier (Belgium), 6:2, 6:4. Feliciano Lopez, who will be Federer's rival, started with a victory against a Canadian of Croatian origin Milan Raonich with 4:6, 7:6 (7:2), 6:4.