Date:07/11/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/07/stories/2009110760521700.htm

Sport - Tennis

Stepanek shocks Cilic

BASEL: Radek Stepanek stunned Marin Cilic 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors here on Friday.

Stepanek, playing in Basel for the first time, won in two hours, overcoming 10 aces from Cilic and breaking on all four opportunities that came his way.

The results:

At Basel (Swiss Indoors): Quarterfinals: Radek Stepanek bt Marin Cilic 4-6, 6-3, 6-3; Second round: Stanislas Wawrinka bt Jarkko Nieminen 7-5, 2-6, 6-1; Richard Gasquet bt John Isner 4-6, 7-6(9), 6-2; Cilic bt Viktor Troicki 7-6(7), 6-7(8), 7-6(6).

At Valencia Open (Valencia Open): Quarterfinals: Andy Murray bt Albert Montanes 6-4, 6-2; Mikhail Youzhny bt Gilles Simon 6-4, 6-4; Second round: Murray bt Leonardo Mayer 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Fernando Verdasco bt Janko Tipsarevic 6-3, 6-3; Tommy Robredo bt Feliciano Lopez 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Nikolay Davydenko bt Juan Monaco 6-3, 7-5; Mikhail Youzhny bt Pablo Cuevas 6-2, 2-6, 6-1. — Agencies