Tuesday December 31, 03:39 PM
Canas battles into Indian Open second round
MADRAS, India (Reuters) - Top seed Guillermo Canas of Argentina survived
a scare in his first match of the season against towering Dick Norman of
Belgium in the Indian Open tennis championships on Tuesday.
Defending champion Canas, 15th in the world, was blasted out in the first
set by the big-serving six-foot-eight Norman but came up with a flurry of
winning passes from the baseline to finally win 4-6 6-2 6-3 in more than
two hours.
"It's always tough in the first match of the year," Canas told reporters.
"Norman played really well in the first set, he served big and hit the
ball hard. I'm happy to come back into the game the way I did and enter
the second round."
Fifth seed Andrei Pavel of Romania was bundled out 6-3 6-3 by qualifier
Tomas Behrend of Germany in quick time at the Nungambakkam tennis stadium.
Pavel, world number 26 and coming off a season in which he made the
quarter-finals of the French Open, failed to get into any sort of rhythm
against the German.
Norman, who broke into the top 100 for the first time this year, forced
Canas onto the back foot early in the first set, breaking his serve in
the fifth game with some acrobatic volleys at the net before closing it
out with a 192 kilometres-per-hour ace.
But Canas, who had beaten a series of top players en route to his maiden
Masters series title at Toronto last year, picked up the tempo in the
second and third sets to set up a second-round clash with experienced
Czech Jiri Vanek.
"Norman is very tall and he used his height very well," Canas said. "I'm
sure he's as much of a problem to a lot of other players as he was to me.
But a tennis match is not over until you win two sets. Winning just one is
not enough."
Eighth seed Albert Montanes of Spain also had to work hard for his 7-6 1-6
6-4 victory over Frenchman Michael Llodra.
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Dick Norman 身高203 cm，巨人:P
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