Three men’s seeds knocked out on day 1 at Wimbledon
June 24, 2008
2002 Wimbledon finalist David Nalbandian is the highest seed to fall on day 1 of the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. The number 7 seed lost in straight sets to Canada’s Frank Dancevic 6-4, 6-2, 6-4.
Ivo Karlovic (18) and Michael Llodra (32) failed to move into the second round. Croatia’s Karlovic was beaten by Germany’s Simon Stadler 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-3, 7-5. Llodra retired from his match against another Croatian, Mario Ancic.
The top seed Roger Federer had no problems against Dominic Hrbaty. The five time defending champion opened up on centre court with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 victory. Federer showed that he means business with a solid display and did not have a single break point against his serve.
Novak Djokovic was made to work for his win. The world number 3 took four sets to overcome Michael Berrer from Germany, 7-5, 2-6, 6-3, 6-0.
2002 Wimbledon champion and former world number 1, Lleyton Hewitt was taken to five sets by Robin Haase of the Netherlands. The final score was 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-3, 6-7(1), 6-2. Hewitt has been suffering from a hip injury for several months however feels he is up to the challenge of playing at Wimbledon.
Marcos Baghdatis seeded 10 had a solid start at Wimbledon. He defeated Steve Darcis 6-3, 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-3. The number 5 seed, David Ferrer won his match after Sergiy Stakhovsky from Ukraine retired from the match.
On day 2 at Wimbledon I look forward to seeing Rafael Nadal as he takes on Germany’s Andreas Beck in the second match on centre court.
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