Djokovic rolls on, Berdych bounced in Indian Wells
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NOVAK Djokovic made it safely into the third round of the Indian Wells ATP Masters on Sunday, but said his straight-sets win over Victor Hanescu left room for improvement. The world No. 2 and second seed, a two-time winner in the California desert, saved all five break points he faced on the way to a 7-6 (7/1), 6-2 victory.
“It was one of those days where you get to serve well and everything else is just kind of trying to find the way to play the right shots at the right time,” said Djokovic, who notched his seventh win over the 87th-ranked Romanian in as many career meetings.
“I didn’t make any returns in the first set. Second set I also struggled with the return, which is one of my better sides in the game generally speaking.”
Djokovic, who won the title here in 2008 and 2011, has played sparingly this season, falling in the Australian Open quarterfinals to eventual champion Stanislas Wawrinka and losing to Roger Federer in the semifinals in Dubai.
He raced to a quick 3-0 lead in the second. He said he’d be working on a few things before his third-round match against Colombian Alejandro Gonzalez, a 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7/5) winner over Croatian Ivan Dodig.
Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain bounced fourth-seeded Tomas Berdych 4-6, 6-2, 6-4. Bautista, ranked 53rd in the world, used a punishing ground game to notch his third career win over a top-10 player.
Berdych, an Australian Open semifinalist who lifted the trophy in Rotterdam this year, arrived in California off a runner-up finish to Federer in Dubai. The 28-year-old Czech was at a loss to explain his off-key outing.
“Anything I touched today was basically bad and was wrong,” he said. “Definitely my worst match that I had this year.”
In other second-round matches, Chinese Taipei’s Lu Yen-Hsun defeated German Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-2, 6-2. Lu earned a rematch with John Isner, who kept the American flag flying with a 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 victory over former world No. 3 Nikolay Davydenko of Russia.
In the women’s, second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland thumped 48th-ranked German Annika Beck 6-0, 6-0. Radwanska next faces France’s Alize Cornet who beat Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro 6-7 (4/7), 7-5, 6-3.
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