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Tennis: Roddick Advances to fourth round at Key Biscayne

Malta Independent Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago

Andy Roddick reached the fourth round of the Sony Ericsson Open on Sunday after overcoming two set points in the tiebreaker to beat Dmitry Tursunov of Russia 7-6 (9), 6-2.

The fifth-seeded Roddick erased one set point with an ace and the second when Tursunov netted a forehand, and won the final three points in a gruelling 75-minute first set. Roddick finished with 11 aces and faced only one break point.

Second-seeded Roger Federer also won, beating Nicolas Kiefer for the 11th consecutive time, 6-4, 6-1.

There were two upsets on the women’s side, both involving last year’s French Open finalists. Seventh-seeded Ana Ivanovic, the defending Roland Garros champion, lost to No. 25 Agnes Szavay 6-4, 4-6, 6-1. No. 2 Dinara Safina was beaten by unseeded Samantha Stosur 6-1, 6-4.

No. 5 Venus Williams, seeking her fourth Key Biscayne title and her first since 2001, beat Anna-Lena Groenefeld

7-5, 6-3. Also, No. 4 Elena Dementieva beat No. 31 Carla Suarez Navarro 6-2, 6-2, and former US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Nicole Vaidisova 6-1, 6-4.

Only two US women made the round of 32 – five-time champion Serena Williams and big sister Venus

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