TENNIS in DEPTH.

Juan Martin Del Potro was in impressive form as won his first-round clash at the SAP Open in San Jose. The Argentinian got the better of Teymuraz Gabashvili 6-3 6-2, indicating that he is getting back to his US Open-winning form following his lengthy injury lay-off.

Elsewhere, three big-name seeds were dumped out on a day of shocks. Home favourite Sam Querrey, the number three seed, was beaten 7-6 (7/6) 6-3 by Lukas Lacko. Xavier Malisse, one seed down from Querrey, put up less of a fight as he lost 6-3 6-4 to Milos Raonic, and the sixth seed, Benjamin Becker, went down 6-3 7-6 (7/2) to Lithuania’s Richard Berankis.

There were also wins for Kei Nishikori over Jan Hajek and Brian Dabul over Alejandro Falla.

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In an historic first round match at the SAP Open in San Jose, top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan defeated Thai duo Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana 6-0, 6-3 on Tuesday evening. It was the first time that two sets of twins had played against each other at ATP level. The two teams nearly clashed for the first time at the ATP World Tour 500 tennis tournament in Barcelona last year

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