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Blake overcomes Jun

INDIANAPOLIS: Top-seeded James Blake struggled early in the first set and fended off two set points in the second before defeating Jun Woong-sun of South Korea 6-3, 7-5 in the second round at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships on Thursday.

Blake, ranked eighth in the world, got off to a similarly slow start in a 7-6(2), 6-2 win against Dudi Sela on Tuesday.

“I definitely don’t feel like this was my best match, but it got me through,” he said. “That’s the most important thing. Sometimes, these matches are more important to win than the ones where you’re playing well.”

The results: At Indianapolis (Indianapolis Championships): Second round: Bobby Reynolds bt Alejandro Falla 6-1, 6-1; Lu Yen-hsun bt Rajeev Ram 6-1, 7-6(1); James Blake bt Jun Woong-sun 6-3, 7-5; Sam Querrey bt Vince Spadea 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. At Kitzbuhel: ATP Austria Open: Quarterfinals: Potito Starace bt Eduardo Schwank 6-1, 6-2; Juergen Melzer bt Rainer Schuttler (GER x2) 2-6, 7-5, 7-5.

Second round: Rainer Schuttler bt Jan Hernych 2-6, 6-4, 7-5; Nicolas Devilder bt Alexander Peya 6-4, 6-4; Juan Martin del Potro bt Sergio Roitman 6-2, 6-4.

At Amersfoort (Dutch Open): Singles: Second round: Albert Montanes bt Pablo Cuevas 6-4, 6-4; Jose Acasuso bt Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-3, 6-4; Marcel Granollers bt Ivan Navarro 6-4, 6-4.

At Umag (Croatia Open): Second round: Igor Andreev bt Daniel Gimeno 6-2 7-6(3); Maximo Gonzalez bt Ivo Karlovic 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Guillermo Canas bt Boris Pasanski 6-7(3), 6-3, 7-5; Roko Karanusic bt Ivan Ljubicic (w.o.).

At Stanford (WTA Bank of the West Classic): Second round: Samantha Stosur bt Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2; Patty Schnyder bt Alisa Kleybanova 7-6(8), 6-4; Marion Bartoli bt Anne Keothavong 6-3, 1-6, 7-5; Aleksandra Wozniak bt Sybille Bammer 6-4, 7-5.

At Bad Gastein (Gastein Ladies): Second round: Mariya Koryttseva bt Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5); Pauline Parmentier bt Anna-Lena Groenefeld 7-5, 4-6, 6-4; Lucie Hradecka bt Timea Bacsinszky 6-1, 6-4; Iveta Benesova bt Galina Voskoboeva 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; Tereza Hladikova bt Karolina Sprem 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.

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