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Bernard Tomic, Lukas Lacko in form in Washington

By Allsports.com.gh
Sports News Bernard Tomic, Lukas Lacko in form in Washington
JUL 29, 2014 LISTEN

Australian Tomic extended his winning run to six matches with a 6-3 6-2 thrashing of Colombian Alejandro Gonzalez on the hard courts in Washington.

Tomic, winner of the Claro Open Colombia to climb back into the top 100, needed just 58 minutes to advance at the ATP 500 event.

He served 10 aces and broke serve three times to set up a meeting with Uzbek 15th seed Denis Istomin.

Slovakia's Lacko built on his quarter-final appearance in Atlanta last week by reaching the second round thanks to a 7-5 6-3 win over Canadian wildcard Filip Peliwo.

Awaiting Lacko in the second round is 16th seed Lu Yen-hsun of Chinese Taipei.

Australian Marinko Matosevic set up a meeting with veteran countryman Lleyton Hewitt after a 6-4 7-5 victory against Ukraine's Illya Marchenko.

Frenchman Benoit Paire was on court for just 39 minutes, disposing of Canadian Frank Dancevic 6-4 6-0.

In a battle between two American qualifiers, Rajeev Ram edged teenager Jared Donaldson 6-7 (1-7) 6-4 7-5.

Donaldson, 17, lost his cool late in the loss to veteran Ram.

Qualifier Robby Ginepri was untroubled in a 6-4 6-2 win over Colombian Alejandro Falla and American Tim Smyczek crushed countryman and qualifier Alex Kuznetsov 6-3 6-0.

Russia's Evgeny Donskoy beat 16-year-old American Francis Tiafoe 6-4 6-4 and Tunisian Malek Jaziri upset Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky 7-6 (7-2) 6-4.

American Donald Young battled to a 6-4 4-6 6-4 win over Japanese qualifier Yuichi Sugita.

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