Internazionali BNL d'Italia Day 1-2
Djokovic, Wawrinka, Ferrer Advance; Li Na Cops 500th Win; Kvitova, Kerber Ousted
After a 3-week absence, Djokovic back on winning track. Photo internazionalibnlditalia.com Novak Djokovic.jpg
May 13 2014 ITS Staff Rome, Italy - World No.2 Novak Djokovic, reigning Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka, and World No.5 David Ferrer advanced to the second round with straight-set victories on Tuesday at the $4 million Internazionali BNL d'Italia Masters at the Foro Italico.
Djokovic defeated Radek Stepanek 6-3, 7-5 in one hour 37 minutes. The two-time champion is playing in his first tournament since he was forced to rest his injured wrist sustained in Monte Carlo three weeks ago. Recent Monte Carlo winner Wawrinka, who was finalist here in 2008, cruised past Spaniard Pere Riba 6-0, 6-3. Spanish star Ferrer also advanced with a crushing victory over talented Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin 6-1 6-2 in under an hour.
Li, shown here last week in Madrid, posts win No.500. Photo F.Sevillano
Other winners include German Philipp Kohlschreiber who upset 6th-seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo 6-2, 6-4. German Tommy Haas, the 36-year-old No.15 seed outlasted local Italian favorite Andreas Seppi 6-1, 4-6, 6-3.
In the women’s side, Australian Open champion Li Na posted her No.500th professional career victory after eliminating Australia’s Casey Dellacqua in straight sets 6-1 6-4. The No.1 seed Chinese star took one hour and 18 minutes to defeat Dellacqua despite wet and windy conditions played at the center court late Tuesday evening.
Fifth-seed Czech Petra Kvitova and No.7 seed Angelique Kerber of Germany were both upset earlier in the day with Kvitova falling to China’s Zhang Shuai 7-6(6), 5-7, 6-3, while Kerber was ousted by Czech qualifier Petra Cetkovska
Internazionali BNL d'Italia Women's Singles Tuesday May 13
R2: 2-Li Na beat Casey Dellacqua 6-1 6-4
R2: Zhang Shuai beat 5-Petra Kvitova 7-6(6) 5-7 6-3
R2: Petra Cetkovska beat 7-Angelique Kerber 4-6 6-3 6-4
R1: Ekaterina Makarova beat Roberta Vinci 6-2 7-6(6)
R1: 13-Carla Suarez Navarro beat Mona Barthel 6-2 6-2
R1: Monica Puig beat Daniela Hantuchova 6-0 4-6 6-0
R1: Belinda Bencic beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3 3-6 6-3
R1: Christina Mchale beat Sorana Cirstea 6-3 4-6 6-1
R1: Camila Giorgi beat 9-Dominika Cibulkova 6-4 7-6(2)
R1: 10-Sara Errani beat Chanelle Scheepers 7-5 6-3
R1: Garbine Muguruza Blanco beat Nastassja Burnett 6-1 6-3
Internazionali BNL d'Italia Men's Singles Tuesday May 13
R2: 2-Novak Djokovic beat Radek Stepanek 6-3 7-5
R2: 3-Stanislas Wawrinka beat Pere Riba 6-0 6-3
R2: 5-David Ferrer beat Mikhail Kukushkin 6-1 6-2
R2: 8-Milos Raonic beat Simone Bolelli 6-3 7-6(5)
R2: Philipp Kohlschreiber beat 16-Tommy Robredo 6-2 6-4
R1: Igor Sijsling beat Marco Cecchinato 7-6(4) 7-5
R1: Dmitry Tursunov beat Roberto Bautista 6-0 7-6(4)
R1: 15-Tommy Haas beat Andreas Seppi 6-1 4-6 6-3
R1: Ernests Gulbis beat Alejandro Falla 6-1 0-0 (Falla retired)
R1: Andrey Golubev beat Fernando Verdasco 6-4 7-5
R1: Kevin Anderson beat Vasek Pospisil 7-5 7-6(4)
R1: Marin Cilic beat Santiago Giraldo 6-4 2-0 ret.
Internazionali BNL d'Italia Women's Singles Round 1 Monday May 12
12-Flavia Pennetta beat Yvonne Meusburger 6-2 6-3
Andrea Petkovic beat Romina Oprandi 6-3 6-0
Samantha Stosur beat 15-Sabine Lisicki 6-3 6-3
16-Sloane Stephens beat Bojana Jovanovski 3-6 6-3 6-3
Casey Dellacqua beat Magdalena Rybarikova 4-6 6-1 6-4
Venus Williams beat Annika Beck 6-3 6-1
Francesca Schiavone beat 17-Eugenie Bouchard 6-4 6-2
Petra Cetkovska beat Tsvetana Pironkova 1-6 6-1 6-4
Paula Ormaechea beat Kurumi Nara 6-4 6-3
Zhang Shuai beat Lauren Davis 6-4 6-0
Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Maria Kirilenko 7-5 6-0
Varvara Lepchenko beat Peng Shuai 6-1 6-0
11-Ana Ivanovic beat Karin Knapp 6-1 6-1
Elena Vesnina beat Elina Svitolina 6-2 6-3
Alize Cornet beat Kirsten Flipkens 6-3 6-2
Madison Keys beat Alison Riske 6-2 6-2
Internazionali BNL d'Italia Men's Singles Round 1 Monday May 12
11-Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-3 7-6(5)
14-Mikhail Youzhny beat Nicolas Mahut 6-4 6-4
Stephane Robert beat Alejandro Gonzalez 1-6 6-4 6-1
Lukas Rosol beat 13-Fabio Fognini 6-3 6-2
Gilles Simon beat Filippo Volandri 6-2 6-3
Pere Riba beat Paolo Lorenzi 7-6(3) 6-3
Simone Bolelli beat Stefano Travaglia 3-6 7-5 7-6(5)
Ivo Karlovic beat Pablo Carreno 3-6 6-3 7-6(4)
12-Grigor Dimitrov beat Edouard Roger-Vasselin 4-6 6-3 6-4
Ivan Dodig beat Federico Delbonis 6-3 6-4
Marcel Granollers beat Feliciano Lopez 7-5 6-1
Internazionali BNL d'Italia Men’s Singles Round 1 Sunday May 11
Jeremy Chardy beat Robin Haase 6-4, 6-4
Radek Stepanek beat Pablo Andujar 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
Mikhail Kukushkin beat Joao Sousa 6-3, 6-7(1), 6-3
Jurgen Melzer beat 9-John Isner 7-6 (7), 6-3
Philipp Kohlschreiber def. Jerzy Janowicz 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2
16-Tommy Robredo beat Juan Monaco 7-6 (3), 6-4
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