Top seed Tipsarevic into Bucharest quarters
Janko Tipsarevic marched into the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy quarter-finals on Thursday.
BUCHAREST (AP) - Top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic marched into the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy quarterfinals with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Santiago Giraldo of Colombia on Thursday.
Tipsarevic dropped serve just once and saved eight of the nine break points he faced, while breaking Giraldo four times.
"I don t think it was an easy game, despite the score," Tipsarevic said.
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain will face Tipsarevic after beating Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Also, Romania s Victor Hanescu eliminated fourth-seeded Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-4, 6-3 without losing his serve, and No. 5 Florian Mayer passed David Goffin of Belgium 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-3. Hanescu will play Mayer on Friday.
The other quarterfinals feature defending champion Gilles Simon playing Daniel Brands, and eighth-seeded Viktor Troicki going against Lukas Rosol.
