Murray and Roddick advance to second round at Queens

Murray and Roddick advance to second round at Queens: Andy Murray and Andy Roddick won in the debut in the AEGON Championships and qualified for the knockout round. Frenchman Richard Gasquet and German Rainer Schuettler also progressed to that instance.

Both Andy Murray and Andy Roddick debuted on the right foot in the grass tournament at Queen's. For 'Muzza' was not yet a home that easy and that Spanish Ivan Navarro(108 °) gave him enough battle, particularly in the first race where a strong kick Alicante remained matching game local to define sudden death. It needed to strive to win Murray 7-6 (8). September loss hit the Spanish-descended on the effectiveness of your service and will go bankrupt twice facilitating British triumph 6-3.

The other Andy, the 'former bad boy of Omaha' Roddick, quadruple champion in the tournament, opened their artillery against Russian Igor Kunitsyn (105 °) who already had won Wimbledon last year. This time the victory was categorical: 6-2, 6-1 with 12 aces and five breaks. 'A Rod "announced that turf will be one of the players to fear.


The big surprise in the first two days of the event is so far the former top ten, the German veteran Rainer Schuettler(86 °), which won its second victory by defeating sixth-seeded Frenchman Gael Monfils(20 °) - who still raise its head - 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-2 in one of the parties with fewer but more aces background play until Queen's.

The rival of former finalist in the Australia Open will be another Frenchman, Richard Gasquet(45 °) who eliminated American Indian Rajeev Ram(93 °) 6-3 7-5 but not before withstand 11 aces and saving two break balls in the second set. The Frenchman managed to seep into round thanks to a break from manga.

In the first round of the Spanish Marcel Granollers beat him in duel fought Serbian Janko Tipsarevic - Tenth seed - 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to sign commitment to France's Marc Gicquel who eliminated American Michael Russell 7-6 (6), 6-3. For the same sector won the Australian Youth Bernard Tomic - Invited to the tournament - on the fifteenth favorite Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 and Belgian Xavier Malisse of Russian Dmitry Tursunov 6-2, 7-6 (3). Tomic and Malisse will be competing in the second round.