Feb. 9, 2011TENNIS PAGE SAP OPEN SCOREBOARD
SAN JOSE (AP) -- Top-seeded Fernando Verdasco of Spain needed only an hour to advance at the SAP Open on Wednesday night, beating American Rajeev Ram 6-3, 6-2 in a first-round match.
The defending champion in the event, Verdasco recorded eight aces and won 88 percent of his first service points.
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Verdasco meets Croatia's Ivo Karlovic in the second round. Karlovic topped American Ryan Sweeting 6-4, 6-4.
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In the night's other headline match, No. 2 seed Gael Monfils easily dispatched Bradley Klahn 6-3, 6-2.
In second-round matches, Lithuanian Richard Berankis beat American Donald Young 6-4, 5-7, 7-5 and Canada's Milos Roanic beat American James Blake 6-2, 7-6 (4).
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The 74th-ranked Berankis, who beat the eighth-seeded Benjamin Becker in the first round, meets Roanic in the quarterfinals.
In another first-round match, American Robert Kendrick downed Russian Igor Kunitsyn 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 and will meet the winner of the late match between No. 2 seed Gael Monfils and Bradley Klahn.