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March 11, 2010 - Indian Wells women’s singles first round results on Wednesday (* denotes new result).
* Virginie Razzano (France) beat Kristina Barrois (Germany) 6-3 6-4
* Jill Craybas (U.S.) beat Eleni Daniilidou (Greece) 6-0 7-5
* Peng Shuai (China) beat Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) 6-1 2-6 6-4
Sorana Cirstea (Romania) beat Kaia Kanepi (Estonia) 6-7(1) 6-3 6-4
Justine Henin (Belgium) beat Magdalena Rybarikova (Slovakia) 6-2 6-2
Olga Govortsova (Belarus) beat Iveta Benesova (Czech Republic) 6-0 4-6 7-6(8)
Alicia Molik (Australia) beat Tatjana Malek (Germany) 6-1 6-3
Vera Dushevina (Russia) beat Jelena Dokic (Australia) 6-0 6-3
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BUENOS AIRES Feb 20, 2010 Second seeded Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero won the first quarter-final of the Buenos Aires Open 6-3 3-6 6-2 against compatriot and qualifier Santiago Ventura on Friday.
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DUBAI Feb 17, 2010 Defending champion Venus Williams eased into the third round of the Dubai Championships on Tuesday with a 6-2 6-3 victory over Germany’s Sabine Lisicki.
Lisicki struck several spectacular winners but wan’t consistent. Williams fought back with some strong serving and baseline play.
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SAN JOSE, California Feb 14, 2010 Top seed Andy Roddick survived a bombardment of 32 aces from compatriot Sam Querrey to win 2-6 7-6 7-6 at the San Jose Open on Saturday. He is into the final for the fourth time.
In a hard-fought contest, world number seven Roddick never held a break point. However, he used his vast experience in two tiebreakers to pull off the win.
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February 11, 2010 Paris Open women’s singles results on Wednesday (prefix denotes seeding, * new result).
First round
Petra Martic (Croatia) beat 3-Yanina Wickmayer (Belgium) 6-4, 3-6 7-5
5-Aravane Rezai (France) beat Evgeniya Rodina (Russia) 6-4 6-4
Second round
* 1-Elena Dementieva (Russia) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) 6-4 6-4
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February 11, 2010 World Indoor Tournament men’s singles
results from Rotterdam, Netherlands on Wednesday (prefix denotes
seeding, * new result).
First round
* Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) beat James Blake (U.S.) 6-4 6-2
2-Nikolay Davydenko (Russia) beat Feliciano Lopez (Spain) 6-4
6-2
Juergen Melzer (Austria) beat 8-Viktor Troicki (Serbia) 6-3 3-0
(Troicki retired)
Michael Berrer (Germany) beat Arnaud Clement (France) 7-6(16)
4-6 6-4
4-Gael Monfils (France) beat Olivier Rochus (Belgium) 4-6 6-1
6-2
Second round
Florian Mayer (Germany) beat 5-Tommy Robredo (Spain) 6-4 3-6 6-3
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Rotterdam, Netherlands Feb 10, 2010 World Indoor Tournament men’s singles first round results on Tuesday (prefix denotes seeding, * new result).
* 6-Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) beat Andrey Golubev (Kazakhstan) 1-6 7-6(0) 7-6(5)
1-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beat Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukraine) 6-2 4-1 (Stakhovsky retired)
Thiemo de Bakker (Netherlands) beat Jan Hajek (Czech Republic) 7-6(5) 6-3
Julien Benneteau (France) beat 7-Ivan Ljubicic (Croatia) 6-3 6-3
Marco Chiudinelli (Switzerland) beat Michael Llodra (France) 6-1 6-7(5) 7-6(6)
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands Feb 9, 2010 Sweden’s Robin Soderling put an indifferent start to the year behind him. He beat Frenchman Florent Serra 4-6 6-4 6-1 in the first round of the World Indoor Tournament on Monday.
Soderling is the world number eight. He suffered first round exits at the Chennai Open and the Australian Open.
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