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 | Ferrer despair Rochus in less than two hours, the 79th in the world eliminate Juan Monaco14-01-2013 |
Seeded 4 in the men David Ferrer (Spain) achieved a landslide victory over Olivier Rochus (Belgium), with 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in a match of the first round of the Australian Open tennis.
Just one hour and 50 minutes it took the Spaniard to cast on a total of 30 winning hits and allowed only 17 unforced errors. The hesitant serve of Rochus became easy prey for Ferrer, who realizes whole six breaks.
The 31 years old Spaniard won eight of his first 9 games of the year, before coming to Melbourne, reached the semifinals of the tournament in Doha, then triumphs with the title in Auckland. Two years ago he did among the top four and Austrelian Open as eliminated on his way Rafael Nadal. In the previous edition of the tournament Ferrer came to 1/4-final, losing to Novak Djokovic.
The first serious surprise in the men served the 79 th in the world Andrey Kuznetsov, who deal with 11th placed Juan Monaco - 7-6 (3), 6-1, 6-1. The 21 years old Russian had not won a game before he show on the courts in the Australian capital, but failed to break service of the Argentinean opponent whole nine times.
The 23rdseeded Mikhail Youzhny for a second year did eliminated the representative of the hosts Matthew Ebdon. The Russian up for liability of two sets and save a machbol with 4-5 in favor of the Australian in the third set to triumphed with 4-6, 6-7 (0), 6-2, 7-6 (4), 6 - 3.
Jerzy Yanovich (Poland) did debut in the championship with a win over Simone Bolelli (Italy) 7-5, 6-4, 6-3 to face in the next round against the Indian Somdev Devvarman who defeated Bjorn Pau (Germany) 6-3, 6-2, 6-3.