Somdev Devvarman finally snapped his losing streak in the singles with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Australian Matthew Ebden in the first round of the ATP Portugal Open here on Tuesday. The Indian beat the World No.64, in one hour and 13 minutes.
The win is Devvarman’s first after suffering five straight first-round defeats in the last three months. The last time he won a singles match on the tour was when he defeated Juan Martin del Potro in ATP 500 Dubai event in February.
The results: First round: In Oeiras (Portugal Open): Somdev Devvarman bt Matthew Ebden 6-2, 6-3; Rui Machado bt Dmitry Tursunov 6-0, 6-0; Daniel Gimeno-Traver bt Alejandro Gonzalez 6-4, 6-1; Carlos Berlocq bt Taro Daniel 6-3, 6-2; Andrey Golubev bt Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Pablo Carreno Busta bt Mikhail Kukushkin 6-1, 7-6(3).
In Munich (BMW Open): Andreas Seppi bt Michael Berrer 6-3, 7-5; Denis Istomin bt Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-5, 2-6, 6-4; Thomaz Bellucci bt Ivan Dodig 7-6(0), 6-4; Jurgen Melzer by Alexander Zverev 6-1, 6-2; Martin Klizan bt Dudi Sela 6-1, 6-2; Jan-Lennard Struff bt Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-4; Marinko Matosevic bt Michal Przysiezny 2-6, 6-5 (retd); Federico Delbonis bt Nikolay Davydenko 6-2, 7-6(4); Alejandro Falla bt Jarkko Nieminen 6-2, 6-1.
