Andy Murray: No. 4 Falls to Thomaz Bellucci, but Top Seeds Stay Stong

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Published: May 6, 2011

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World No. 2 Novak Djokovic was the first winner of the day and played against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-1, 6-2 in 51 minutes. He was soon followed by all of the seeded players at the Madrid ATP Masters. World No. 4 Andy Murray had no such luck, losing to Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci 6-4, 6-2.

Not including his two Davis Cup wins, Djokovic is matched with Ivan Lendl for the record start-of-the-season winning streak at 29-0. The clay does not seem to faze the hard court specialist; he won 100 percent of his first serves and 32-of-34 total service points while never facing a break point.

Not to jump the gun but one has to wonder how well he will do on grass which has always been a struggle for him?

World No. 3 Roger Federer followed the seed wins with an easier defeat against Xavier Malisse at 6-4, 6-3, compared to his match yesterday. He will play Soderling next, for a rematch of the French Open quarterfinals last year.

World No. 1 Rafael Nadal never had to get on court and got a day off after his opponent, Juan Martin del Potro, retired with a hip injury.

We would have successfully been able to count to seven in the seeds and rankings in today's fight to get into the quarterfinals, however, Murray fell in two sets to Bellucci making that an impossibility.

Murray won only 43-of-113 total points and was unable to save or win any break points. Bellucci improved his career record on clay to 48 wins to 30 losses.

World No. 5 Robin Soderling has had a dismal season on clay thus far but was able to pull out an epic win against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. The score was 7-6(8), 7-5. World No. 22 Tsonga suffered an ankle roll in the first set but continued to fight and shot 13 aces. Soderling improved his record against the Frenchman to 5-0.

The last match of the day was between World No. 6 David Ferrer versus Sergiy Stakhovsky. Stakhovsky gave Ferrer a harder time than the score indicates...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Tennis

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