Baghdatis goes through
Date published :
26 Aug 2010 - 07:00:46
Top seed Marcos Baghdatis fought back from a poor opening to beat Juan Ignacio Chela and reach the quarter-finals of the Pilot Pen Tennis in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Cypriot struggled during the first set against his Argentinian opponent, failing to win a single service game as he lost it 6-1.
But he regrouped to comfortably take the next two sets 6-3 6-2 and claim victory.
Fifth seed Andrey Golubev was the biggest casualty as he was edged out 6-3 3-6 7-6 (9/7) by Russian qualifier Teymuraz Gabashvili.
Golubev was not the only seed to fall with Germany's eighth seed Florian Mayer also coming off worst in his tie with Dutch 12th seed Thiemo De Bakker, who won 6-7 (2/7) 6-1 7-5.
Sixteenth seed Victor Hanescu exited after losing 7-6 (7/4) 6-7 (4/7) 6-4 to Radek Stepanek. Seventh seed Alexandr Dolgopolov was defeated by 10th seed Viktor Troicki having seen off American wild card James Blake in a held-over second-round match earlier in the day.
Denis Istomin and Evgeny Korolev were both winners as they saw off Lukas Lacko and Illya Marchenko respectively.
All the big names survived in the women's second round led by top seed Caroline Wozniacki, who was named top seed for the US Open earlier this week, who eased past Dominika Cibulkova 6-4 6-1.
Fourth seed Elena Dementieva was pushed to three sets by Kateryna Bondarenko before going through 7-6 (7/4) 6-7 (7/5) 6-4 and Maria Kirilenko was a 6-3 6-1 winner against Timea Bacsinszky.
Sixth seed and former Wimbledon finalist Marion Bartoli beat qualifier Anastasia Rodionova 6-3 6-1 and there were also wins for Flavia Pennetta, Nadia Petrova and wild card Dinara Safina.
