Second seed Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic advanced to the second round of the ABN Amro World tennis tournament here on Wednesday, defeating compatriot Lukas Rosol 6-4, 6-2 in an hour and 16 minutes.
Hantuchova ousted
In Doha, Daniela Hantuchova, the glamour girl from Slovakia, was sent packing in the first round of the WTA Qatar Open by little known Romanian Simona Halep on Tuesday as ninth seed Sabine Lisicki of Germany too was shocked by compatriot Angelique Kerber.
Hantuchova , who won in Pattaya last week, ran into an aggressive baseliner who played a brilliant tie-breaker to clinch a 3-6, 6-2, 7-6(4) win after two hours and 32 minutes on court.
“This is one of the best wins of my career, she is a good player, but I'm happy to go into the second round,” said Halep after beating the 15th seed.
Hantuchova's upset followed the 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 ouster of Lisicki by recent Paris Open winner Kerber.
The results:
At Rotterdam (ABN Amro World tennis tournament): First round: Marcos Baghdatis bt Matthias Bachinger 7-6(2), 6-2; Alex Bogomolov Jr. bt Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-3, 0-1 (retired); Tomas Berdych bt Lukas Rosol 6-4, 6-2.
Viktor Troicki bt Thiemo de Bakker 7-6(6), 6-0; Phillip Kohlschreiber bt Marcel Granollers 6-1, 1-6, 6-4; Nikolay Davydenko bt Robin Haase 7-5, 6-2; Mikhail Youzhny bt Igor Kunitsyn 6-0, 6-7(4), 6-0.
At San Jose (SAP Open): First round: Gilles Muller bt Tim Smyczek 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-3; Robby Ginepri bt Xavier Malisse 6-1, 6-2.
At Brazil (Brasil Open): First round: Igor Andreev bt Fernando Gonzalez 6-2, 6-3.
At Doha (WTA Qatar Total Open): First round: Agnieszka Radwanska bt Anne Keothavong 6-1, 6-2; Marion Bartoli bt Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-2, 6-0.
Second round: Simona Halep bt Daniela Hantuchova 3-6, 6-2, 7-6(4); Yanina Wickmayer bt Ayumi Morita 6-2, 6-1; Angelique Kerber bt Sabine Lisicki 4-6, 6-4, 6-1; Anabel Medina Garrigues bt Klara Zakopalova 6-4, 6-1; Lucie Safarova bt Urszula Radwanska 6-3, 6-4; Maria Kirilenko bt Zheng Jie 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.
