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Frustrated Roddick wins, Fish out in Shanghai

October 12, 2011 00:00:00


SHANGHAI, Oct 11 (AFP): Andy Roddick refocused after losing his cool Tuesday to reach the third round of the Shanghai Masters with a 7-6 (73), 7-5 win as top American Mardy Fish crashed out to Australian teen Bernard Tomic. Tenth seed Roddick won a first set tie-break against Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov and sealed victory after clinching a topsy-turvy second set that contained five breaks of serve. After Dimitrov broke Roddick in the ninth game of the second set to lead 5-4, the American smashed his bag repeatedly in frustration but immediately broke back to level at 5-5, saving a set point. Speaking about the incident, Roddick said: "I don't know that I made a first serve that game, you know, so that was frustrating for me. I mean I felt like I was returning pretty well and hitting my forehand pretty well. "Then all of a sudden I'm not putting a first serve in the court. So I was kind of pissed. I felt like I was getting it backwards a little bit. In the late match at the Qi Zhong stadium, 18-year-old Tomic rallied from a set down to beat fifth seed Fish 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 to join Roddick in the third round.

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