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ESTORIL, Portugal: Swiss third seed Stanislas Wawrinka eased intothe third round of the Estoril Open here on Wednesday recording a7-6 (7/5), 6-1 win over Spaniard Ivan Navarro at a rain-hit EstadioNacional. The 22nd-ranked Wawrinka, seeded behind Juan Martin Del Potro andFrenchman Richard Gasquet here, needed one hour to get through thefirst set against a clay specialist ranked 232 and playing only hissecond ATP-level match of the season. Gasquet, finalist here in 2007, enjoyed a troublefree encounter inwhat was his first clay court match of the campaign with a 6-1, 6-1rout of Italy's Paolo Lorenzi. Gasquet improved to 12-8 in 2012 after reaching four quarter-finalsin the first two months of the year.
"It was a good result for me, I cannot complain. I've played afinal here so I know about the conditions. "The wind is not a problem for me, I don't mind playing in it. "I like to work with the wind and this was a good match to start." Wawrinka, twice a semi-finalist on clay this season and alsoreached the Monte Carlo Masters quarter-finals, had a really toughbattle with Navarro in the first set on a day of blowing rainsqualls and wind which lowered temperatures and made conditionsheavy underfoot.
"It was tough conditions today with the wind and rain," saidWawrinka. "My opponent had some experience here as he had come fromqualifying. "It was a tough first round but tone that I'm happy I won. I wonthe tough first set and then started to play a lot better in thesecond. "I won the match and that's the most important thing.
You just haveto accept the conditions no matter what they are and focus on everypoint." Wawrinka went down a break, 2-4 in the first set but got itstraight back before winning a tiebreaker where Navarro saved fourset points. In the second set, the 27-year-old Swiss ran away with the victoryin less than 90 minutes with six aces against an opponent whoseonly victory over him came nine years ago at the entry Futureslevel. In the women's tournament, top seed Roberta Vinci of Italydispatched Portuguese hope Maria Joao Koehler 6-2, 6-0 but Italy'sKarin Knapp upset second seed Maria Kirilenko 1-6, 6-1, 7-5. 2005 winner Zheng Jie of China, the fifth seed, lost 6-4, 6-1 toKazak Galina Voskoboeva. Sixth seed Kaia Kanepi of Estonia put out the last American in thefield by defeating Vania King 6-3, 6-4 while seventh-seeded RussianNadia Petrova reached the quarter-finals as Australian JarmilaGajdosova retired hurt after losing the opening set 7-6 (7/2).
The same fate befell eighth seed Polona Hercog as the Slovenian hadto quit trailing 6-4, 3-0, against Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain. -AFP/ac. I am an expert from Industrial Supplies, usually analyzes all kind of industries situation, such as self propelled stacker , plastic snap rivets.
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