News, Reviews, Headlines for the world of Tennis (tennis news)
 | Andy Murray qualified for the third round of the series "Masters" in Monte Carlo1-07-2012 |
World No. 4 Andy Murray (Britain) qualify for third round of the series "Masters" in Monte Carlo with a prize of € 2,750,000.
Murray, who is seeded third in the scheme, defeated Viktor Troicki (Serbia) with 6:0, 6:3 for 67 minutes.
For Troicki, who is number 30 in world rankings, this is the fifth loss in five games by Murray.
The Briton led with 4:0 after only 17 minutes and until the end continued to dominate completely.
"The goal in front of me in "Roland Garros" Today I had a great start of the match" said Murray.
In the third round he will play with the winner of the match between Juergen Melzer (Austria) and Julien Benneteau (France).
Number 13 Fernando Verdasco from Spain also qualified for the third round after success over Ivan Dodig (Croatia) with 3:6, 6:3, 6:1 for two hours of play.
In the first round of the tournament was eliminated from the scheme number 14 Florian Mayer (Germany). He lost with 6:3, 1:6, 3:6 by Michail Kukushkin (Kazakhstan).
the four Italians qualified for the second round. Andreas Seppi beat Viktor Hanesku (Romania) with 6:3 6:1, Filippo Volandri beat Dzhianesi Alessandro (Italy) with 7:5, 6:3, and Fabio Fonini handle Yodra Michel (France) with 7:5, 6:3.
Potito Starace lead with 4:2 in the first set before his rival Carlos Berlok (Argentina) to withdraw because of injury.
For the second round is qualified more Thomas Bellucci (Brazil), who achieved victory over Kevin Andreson (South Africa) with 6:4, 6:4.
The Portuguese Frederico Gil beat Mikhail Youzhny from Russia with 6:1, 6:3 and also move forward in the tournament.