Tomic takes Montanes the distance in Barcelona
April 26, 2012, Thursday
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AUSTRALIA'S Bernard Tomic bowed out of the Barcelona Open in the second round yesterday after losing a marathon battle to Spanish clay specialist Albert Montanes 0-6, 7-5, 5-7.
Tomic, ranked 15 for the tournament and who at just 19 was the youngest man in the field, put up a tough fight against his 30-year-old opponent, who has won all five of his ATP career titles on clay.
The teenager, who began the season by progressing to the Australian Open fourth round, spent two hours 15 minutes on center court at the Real Club de Tenis at an event which Rafael Nadal has won six times in the last seven years.
Stuttgart-born Tomic's showing duplicated his second round last week in Monte Carlo as he began his pre-French Open build-up with a debut appearance in Barcelona.
Spanish third seed David Ferrer made up for his surprise opening defeat last week in Monte Carlo, crushing Serbian wildcard Filip Krajinovic 6-0, 6-3.
Elsewhere, Santiago Giraldo of Colombia defeated Monte Carlo quarterfinalist Robin Haase of the Netherlands 6-4, 6-3 and Japan's eighth seed Kei Nishikori demonstrated his growing confidence on clay with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 defeat of Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin which took just under two hours.
Tomic, ranked 15 for the tournament and who at just 19 was the youngest man in the field, put up a tough fight against his 30-year-old opponent, who has won all five of his ATP career titles on clay.
The teenager, who began the season by progressing to the Australian Open fourth round, spent two hours 15 minutes on center court at the Real Club de Tenis at an event which Rafael Nadal has won six times in the last seven years.
Stuttgart-born Tomic's showing duplicated his second round last week in Monte Carlo as he began his pre-French Open build-up with a debut appearance in Barcelona.
Spanish third seed David Ferrer made up for his surprise opening defeat last week in Monte Carlo, crushing Serbian wildcard Filip Krajinovic 6-0, 6-3.
Elsewhere, Santiago Giraldo of Colombia defeated Monte Carlo quarterfinalist Robin Haase of the Netherlands 6-4, 6-3 and Japan's eighth seed Kei Nishikori demonstrated his growing confidence on clay with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 defeat of Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin which took just under two hours.
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