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Ferrer, Roddick reach third round in Tokyo

Wed 1st, October 2008

Tokyo, Japan (Sports Network) - Top seeds David Ferrer and Andy Roddick were among Wednesday's second-round winners at the $869,000 Japan Open Tennis Championships.

The reigning Tokyo champion Ferrer got past American Jesse Levine 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, while a second-seeded Roddick, fresh off his title in Beijing last week, barely snuck past Czech Ivo Minar 7-6 (13-11), 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-2) at Ariake Colosseum. Roddick fired 37 aces at the game Minar, who pushed the American for 2 hours, 43 minutes.

Ferrer beat Frenchman Richard Gasquet in last year's finale here.

Up next for Ferrer on Thursday will be wild card and Japanese favorite Takao Suzuki, while Roddick will take on 14th-seeded Austrian Jurgen Melzer.

Third-seeded Chilean Fernando Gonzalez, last month's Olympic silver medalist in Beijing, overcame Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu 1-6, 7-5, 6-3, while a fourth-seeded Gasquet grounded Austrian qualifier Martin Slanar 6-4, 6-2.

Surging fifth-seeded Argentine Juan Martin del Potro handled last week's Beijing runner-up Dudi Sela of Israel 7-5, 6-0, while sixth-seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo routed Aussie Joseph Sirianni 6-2, 6-2 and seventh-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga held off American Bobby Reynolds 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4. The Australian Open runner-up Tsonga captured his first-ever ATP title in Bangkok last week by stunning Aussie Open champion Novak Djokovic in the final, which marked a rematch of January's Aussie Open title bout.

Five other seeds advanced on Wednesday, while three others lost in the second round.

Eighth-seeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny drove past Italian Flavio Cipolla 6-2, 6-2; ninth-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych blew past Croat Roko Karanusic 6-3, 6-4; 11th-seeded Finn Jarkko Nieminen topped the Philippines' Cecil Mamiit, a qualifier, 7-6 (9-7), 6-4; 12th-seeded German Rainer Schuettler edged out Korean Hyung-Taik Lee 6-3, 6-7 (3-7), 6-3; and the aforementioned Melzer dismissed German Simon Stadler 6-2, 6-3.

Mild upsets came when Amer Delic took out 13th-seeded fellow American Sam Querrey 7-6 (7-5), 6-3, the aforementioned Suzuki outlasted 15th-seeded Italian Simone Bolelli 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), and another Japanese favorite, Kei Nishikori, upended Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-4, 6-4.

One other second-round result saw Serbian Viktor Troicki trounce American Wayne Odesnik 6-2, 6-1.

Thursday's other quality third-round matches will pit Gonzalez against Delic; Gasquet versus Nishikori; del Potro against Nieminen; Robredo versus Berdych; Tsonga against Troicki; and Youzhny versus the 2003 Tokyo titlist Schuettler.

The 2008 Tokyo champion will collect $135,000.

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