Four-time champion Roger Federer crushed Alex Bogomolov 6-3, 6-2, leading the world’s best players into the third round of the Cincinnati Masters.
World number one Federer was untouchable in his first outing since the Olympics, and will now face Australia’s Bernard Tomic. Federer won the trophy in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2010 and is bidding for some personal Masters 1000 history as he chases a fifth title.
Second-seed Novak Djokovic made a scratchy start while Andy Murray motored through, as the pair of seeds won their opening matches after first round byes. The Serb defeated Italian Andreas Seppi 7-6 (7/4), 6-2, but he was not impressed with his form, dubbing the win ‘not a great performance’, though he improves to a 9-0 record over Seppi, whom he struggled with at Roland Garros in a comeback from two sets down in the fourth round.
Murray, the Olympic gold medalist who played one match last week in Toronto and then quit with a sore knee, showed no sign of injury as he knocked out American Sam Querrey 6-2, 6-4, in just 83 minutes.
In the women’s second round, top seed Agnieszka Radwanska dispatched Swede Sofia Arvidsson 6-4, 6-3. Fourth-seed Petra Kvitova defeated German Mona Barthel 3-6, 6-2, 7-5, while number six Caroline Wozniacki hammered Sesil Karatantcheva 6-1, 6-0.
Updated at: 24 May 2013
We'll have to give Ajmal the respect he deserves: Kevin O'Brien KARACHI : While admitting that facing Pakistan’s Saeed Ajmal will be “tricky”, Ireland’s Kevin O’Brien said that his team have no particular strategy planned out to tackle “one of the best spinners in the world”.
Speaking to PakPassion.net, Ireland’s vice-captain said that he and his team mates were looking forward to the two One Day Internationals (ODIs) against Pakistan to prove their mettle.
“It'll be a great chance for me personally and for the team to show what we can do again.
“I ...
Updated at: 24 May 2013
Redford steals Cannes show with comeback film CANNES, France: He has almost no dialogue and the character he plays is never named, but Robert Redford delighted Cannes on Wednesday in his first meaty starring role in years, a solo performance as a lost-at-sea yachtsman fighting for his life.
Now a hardy 76, the leading man of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, “The Sting” and “Out of Africa” carries “All Is Lost” by J.C. Chandor single-handedly, with just a few scripted lines.
He plays a retired man on an Indian Ocean voyage whose ...
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China to help end Pakistan energy crisis: Li ISLAMABAD: China and Pakistan should make the cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, as Pakistan seeks to end an energy crisis that triggers power cuts of up to 20 hours a day, bringing the economy to a near standstill.
He was addressing a luncheon hosted in ...
Massive power outages irk people LAHORE: The unscheduled loadshedding of electricity coupled with a very hot weather made lives of the people very miserable across the country.
The power outages continued for more 20 hours a day.
The business centers gave a deserted look and especially those traders, whose business linked ...
MQM suspends its three members KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has suspended the party membership of Coordination Committee members Shakeel Umar and Saleem Tajik for indefinite period.
According to the statement issued by the MQM’s coordination committee, the party’s membership of Karachi Tanzeemi Committee (KTC) ...
Soldier killed in UK ‘terror attack’ LONDON : British Prime Minister David Cameron called an emergency security meeting on Wednesday after a man was killed near an army barracks in London, and two men were shot and wounded by police.
Prime Minister Cameron said there were ‘strong indications that it is a terrorist incident’ and the UK ...
Karzai rules out Indian soldiers on Afghanistan’s soil NEW DELHI : Addressing media persons in New Delhi, visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday said Kabul has given a wish list to India, but did not specify what the list contains. He also ruled out deployment of Indian soldiers in Afghanistan.
Karzai said: “We have a wish list that we ...