INDIANAPOLIS, July 23: Top seed Andy Roddick survived a second round scare at the RCA Championships on Tuesday, needing three sets to tame young Frenchman Cyril Saulnier 6-7 6-3 7-6.
Playing in his first match since the Wimbledon semi-finals, Roddick, who received a first round bye, showed signs of rust dropping the opening set in a tie-break 7-5 and falling behind 3-1 in the second.
But the American world number six, backed by the home crowd, steadied himself to level the match at a set apiece.
The 20 year-old American, twice a winner this season, continued to battle in the third before prevailing in another tie-break, 7-4.
Roddick could have expected a tough fight from Saulnier, the Frenchman forcing him to go three tough sets at the Nasdaq-100 Open in March.
Results
Second Round: Mardy Fish bt Chris Guccione 7-5 6-7 (5-7) 6-4; Andy Roddick bt Cyril Saulnier 6-7 (7-5) 6-3 7-6 (7-4); Jan-Michael Gambill bt Thomas Enqvist 6-2 6-2; Nicolas Kiefer bt Prakash Amritraj 6-3 6-1; Wesley Moodie bt Brian Vahaly 6-3 4-6 7-6 (7-1); Sjeng Schalken bt Ivan Miranda 6-3 6-1
First Round: Gregory Carraz bt Noam Okun 4-6 6-3 6-4; Ivo Heuberger bt Harel Levy 6-1 6-1; Janko Tipsarevic bt Nenad Zimonjic 7-6 (7-5) 6-4; Alex Bogomolov Jr bt Alex Kim 6-3 1-6 6-4.
MASSU UPSETS COSTA
KITZBUEHEL (Austria): Unseeded Nicolas Massu outfought fourth seed Albert Costa of Spain 6-7 7-5 7-6 in a marathon battle in the second round of the Generali Open on Wednesday.
Results
UMAG (Croatia): Results from the 400,000 euro (453,000 dollar) ATP event on Tuesday:
First Round:
Rafael Nadal (SPA) bt Adrian Voinea (ROM) 6-1, 1-0, retired; Fernando Gonzalez (CHI x2) bt Lovro Zovko (CRO) 6-4, 6-4; Carlos Moya (SPA x1) bt Jiri Vanek (CZE) 7-6 (7/1), 6-4; Stanislas Wawrinka (SWI) bt Roko Karanusic (CRO) 6-4, 6-4; Sasa Tuksar (CRO) bt Albert Montanes (SPA) 7-5, retired; David Ferer (SPA x8) bt Hicham Arazi (MAR) 6-0, 3-1, retired; Filippo Volandri (ITA x7) bt Attila Savolt (HUN) 6-3, 6-0; Magnus Norman (SWE) bt Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (SPA) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5; Jean-Rene Lisnard (FRA) bt Julian Knowle (AUT) 6-4, 6-3.
WTA results
STANFORD (California): Results here on Tuesday in the 565,000-dollar WTA tennis tournament:
First Round: Francesca Schiavone (ITA) bt Jill Craybas (USA) 6-3, 6-1; Marie-Gaianeh Mikaelian (SWI) bt Julia Vakulenko (UKR) 6-1, 6-2; Maria Vento-Kabchi (VEN) bt Nadia Petrova (RUS) 6-1, 7-6 (7/4).—Agencies
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