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 | Victories for Hewitt, Tomic, Nalbandian and Gofen, Gulbis won 11th straight game8-03-2013 |
Masters in Indian Wells has started today and during the first day of the tournament interesting matches definitely didn't miss. In one of them two-time champion Lleyton Hewitt secure a place in the second round after winning with 6-4 3-6 6-1 over Lucas Rosso, reaching four breaks in the submission of the powerful Pole and his next opponent is last year's finalist John Iznar.
The good news for Australians do not end there - Bernard Tomic also overcame the first round, and that was after 6-4 6-3 win over Tomas Bellucci in a match in which the youngster reached one break in each set and in turn allow one for the whole game. The next opponent of Tomic is tenth placed Richard Gasquet, who rest at the start of the tournament, wrote .
One of the most interesting matches of the second round against each other will stand Jerzy Yanovich and David Nalbandian in a match, opposing both experience and youth, and two very different styles of play. The young Pole as a set, resting in the first round, while the the 31-year-old Argentinean has started the tournament with a 6-4 6-2 victory over Marcel Granoyers.
Ernests Gulbis ten days ago said he was determined to devote himself entirely to tennis and will stop the alcohol, cigarettes and nightlife. It seems they were not just empty words from the Latvian and the result is now 11 consecutive wins. It started at a tournament in Delray Beach, where Gulbis started the qualifications and won the title at Indian Wells and again prevailed in the first qualifying round of the main draw beat with the firm 6-3 6-2 over Feliciano Lopez. The next opponent of the "new Ernest" is the eighth placed Janko Tipsarevic.
David Gofen also secure a place in the second round after a 4-6 6-3 6-4 success against Viktor Troicki in one of the most controversial matches of the tournament start, causing of the Serb sixth loss of eight games played this season. Thus, the youngster took revenge for his dramatic five sets loss from Troicki in their bowl game "Davis" which was played in nearly a month ago Belgium. One of the surprises of the first round brought Daniel Brands, eliminated Marcos Baghdatis, and after a set of zero and win 6-0 7-6 (3).
Today was clear and the first opponent of the winner of a record of four titles at Indian Wells Roger Federer - this is Denis Istomin, eliminated earlier today the 22 years old Canadian Vashek Pospisil after 7-6 (5) 6-3. The opponent of Rafael Nadal will be determined by the match between Ryan Harrison and Go Soeda, who play at the moment.