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Day Four - Thursday June 26

  • Murray: Beat Malisse.

    Murray: Beat Malisse.

Men's Singles second round:

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa) bt (19) Nicolas Almagro (Spa) 6-3 3-6 5-7 6-1 6-2

(28) Gilles Simon (Fra) bt Agustin Calleri (Arg) 5-7 6-2 6-3 6-4

(14) Paul-Henri Mathieu (Fra) bt Jeremy Chardy (Fra) 6-3 7-5 7-6 (7-1)

Janko Tipsarevic (Ser) bt (6) Andy Roddick (USA) 6-7 (5-7) 7-5 6-4 7-6 (7-4)

(25) Dmitry Tursunov (Rus) bt Chris Eaton (Gbr) 7-6 (7-2) 6-2 6-4

(8) Richard Gasquet (Fra) bt Sebastien Grosjean (Fra) 6-2 6-2 ret

Marin Cilic (Cro) bt (24) Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 6-4 3-6 6-3 6-7 (6-8) 7-5

(16) Radek Stepanek (Cze) bt Viktor Troicki (Ser) 6-7 (1-7) 6-7 (3-7) 6-3 6-1 6-2

Rainer Schuettler (Ger) bt (9) James Blake (USA) 6-3 6-7 (8-10) 4-6 6-4 6-4

(12) Andrew Murray (Gbr) bt Xavier Malisse (Bel) 6-4 6-2 6-2

Tommy Haas (Ger) bt (23) Tommy Robredo (Spa) 6-4 6-4 6-3

(2) Rafael Nadal (Spa) bt Ernest Gulbis (Lat) 5-7 6-2 7-6 (7-2) 6-3

(17) Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) bt Stefano Galvani (Ita) 4-6 6-4 6-3 3-6 6-3

Arnaud Clement (Fra) bt Benjamin Becker (Ger) 7-6 (9-7) 7-6 (7-3) 6-3

Jurgen Melzer (Aut) bt Jesse Levine (USA) 4-6 6-2 3-6 6-4 6-1

(27) Nicolas Kiefer (Ger) bt Martin Vassalo Arguello (Arg) 6-0 6-3 6-1

Women's Singles second round:

Ai Sugiyama (Jpn) bt (22) Flavia Pennetta (Ita) 7-6 (7-5) 2-6 6-2

(21) Nadia Petrova (Rus) bt Mara Santangelo (Ita) 6-4 7-5

Alisa Kleybanova (Rus) bt (10) Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) 6-3 4-6 6-1

(5) Elena Dementieva (Rus) bt Timea Bacsinszky (Swi) 4-6 6-3 6-3

(16) Victoria Azarenka (Blr) bt Sorana-Mihaela Cirstea (Rom) 6-1 6-3

(2) Jelena Jankovic (Ser) bt Carla Suarez-Navarro (Spa) 6-1 6-3

Shuai Peng (Chn) bt (26) Sybille Bammer (Aut) 7-6 (9-7) 4-6 6-3

Alla Kudryavtseva (Rus) bt (3) Maria Sharapova (Rus) 6-2 6-4

(24) Shahar Peer (Isr) bt Emilie Loit (Fra) 6-3 6-4

(9) Dinara Safina (Rus) bt Su-Wei Hsieh (Tpe) 6-3 6-2

(31) Caroline Wozniacki (Den) bt Aleksandra Wozniak (Can) 6-1 6-1

Marina Erakovic (Nzl) bt Julia Goerges (Ger) 6-2 7-6 (7-5)

Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha) bt (13) Vera Zvonareva (Rus) 7-6 (12-10) 4-6 6-3

Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (Spa) bt (32) Sania Mirza (Ind) 6-0 4-6 9-7

Gisela Dulko (Arg) bt (25) Lindsay Davenport (US) w/o

Men's Doubles second round:

(9) Lukas Dlouhy (Cze) & Leander Paes (Ind) bt Eric Butorac (USA) & Ashley Fisher (Aus) 6-3 7-6 (7-3) 6-3

Marcel Granollers-Pujol (Spa) & Santiago Ventura (Spa) bt Rohan Bopanna (Ind) & Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureschi (Pak) 6-2 6-4 6-2

Men's Doubles first round:

Thomas Johansson (Swe) & Jurgen Melzer (Aut) bt Oliver Marach (Aut) & Michael Mertinak (Svk) 6-2 7-5 7-5

Philipp Petzschner (Ger) & Alexander Peya (Aut) bt (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (Ind) & Mark Knowles (Bah) 7-5 6-2 7-6 (7-4)

James Cerretani (USA) & Victor Hanescu (Rom) bt Bruno Soares (Bra) & Dusan Vemic (Ser) 6-3 3-6 7-5 7-6 (7-3)

(14) Max Mirnyi (Blr) & Jamie Murray (Gbr) bt Marc Gicquel (Fra) & Fabrice Santoro (Fra) 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5) 6-3

Feliciano Lopez (Spa) & Fernando Verdasco (Spa) bt Tomas Cibulec (Cze) & Ivo Minar (Cze) 6-4 6-4 6-4

Travis Parrott (USA) & Filip Polasek (Svk) bt (6) Martin Damm (Cze) & Pavel Vizner (Cze) 6-4 7-6 (8-6) 2-6 6-4

(2) Daniel Nestor (Can) & Nenad Zimonjic (Ser) bt Alex Bogdanovic (Gbr) & Jonathan Marray (Gbr) 6-4 7-6 (7-4) 6-1

(15) Christopher Kas (Ger) & Rogier Wassen (Ned) bt Oscar Hernandez (Spa) & Albert Montanes (Spa) 7-5 6-3 6-2

Rajeev Ram (USA) & Bobby Reynolds (USA) bt Amer Delic (USA) & Brendan Evans (USA) 6-2 7-6 (7-4) 6-3

Rik De Voest (Rsa) & Lukasz Kubot (Pol) bt Neil Bamford (Gbr) & Joshua Goodall (Gbr) 6-3 7-6 (7-5) 6-2

Women's Doubles first round:

(11) Serena Williams (USA) & Venus Williams (USA) bt Marta Domachowska (Pol) & Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) 6-0 6-4

Elena Vesnina (Rus) & Vera Zvonareva (Rus) bt Eva Hrdinova (Cze) & Petra Kvitova (Cze) 7-6 (10-8) 4-6 6-2

Nuria Llagostera Vives (Spa) & Martinez Sanchez (Spa) bt (12) Anna Smith (Gbr) & Georgie Stoop (Gbr) 7-6 (9-7) 7-6 (7-3)

(13) Bethanie Mattek (USA) & Sania Mirza (Ind) bt Elena Baltacha (Gbr) & Naomi Cavaday (Gbr) 6-4 6-2

Ekaterina Makarova (Rus) & Selima Sfar (Tun) bt (7) Alona Bondarenko (Ukr) & Kateryna Bondarenko (Ukr) 6-3 6-3

Sara Errani (Ita) & Francesca Schiavone (Ita) bt Tamira Paszek (Aut) & Jasmin Woehr (Ger) 7-5 7-6 (8-6)

(5) Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spa) & Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spa) bt Stephanie Foretz (Fra) & Camille Pin (Fra) 6-3 6-1

Christina Fusano (USA) & Angela Haynes (USA) bt Edina Gallovits (Rom) & Olga Govortsova (Blr) 7-6 (8-6) 6-2

Mixed Doubles first round:

Jonas Bjorkman (Swe) & Alicia Molik (Aus) bt Frantisek Cermak (Cze) & Lucie Hradecka (Cze) 4-6 6-3 6-1

Yves Allegro (Sui) & Agnes Szavay (Hun) bt Alex Bogdanovic (Gbr) & Melanie South (Gbr) 7-6 (8-6) 2-6 9-7

Wesley Moodie (Rsa) & Jill Craybas (USA) bt Andre Sa (Bra) & Janette Husarova (Svk) 6-2 6-2

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