Baghdatis knocked out of Australian Open, destroys four racquets

Marcos Baghdatis has lost to Swiss opponent Stanislas Wawrinka inthe second round of the Australian Open in Melbourne, losing 7-6 6-4 5-7 6-1.

Baghdatis, who was an Australian Open runner up in 2006, destroyed four racquets during the match, after falling two sets down to 21st seed Wawrinka. (See video below)

Full report to follow…

 

Other Australian Open men’s singles second round results (prefix denotes seeding)

21-Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) beat Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) 7-6(3) 6-4 5-7 6-1

 10-Nicolas Almagro (Spain) beat Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria) 4-6 6-3 6-7(4) 6-4 6-0    

 Bernard Tomic (Australia) beat Sam Querrey (U.S.) 3-6 6-3 7-6(3) 6-3                 

 Ivo Karlovic (Croatia) beat Carlos Berlocq (Argentina) 7-6(4) 3-6 6-3 6-4            

13-Alexandr Dolgopolov (Ukraine) beat Tobias Kamke (Germany) 4-6 6-1 6-1 3-6 8-6 

16-John Isner (U.S.) beat David Nalbandian (Argentina) 4-6 6-32-6 7-6(5) 10-8       

 Lukas Lacko (Slovakia) beat Donald Young (U.S.) 6-3 6-1 3-6 6-3 

 2-Rafa Nadal (Spain) beat Tommy Haas (Germany) 6-4 6-3 6-4  

 3-Roger Federer (Switzerland) beat Andreas Beck (Germany)Walkover    

 11-Juan Martin Del Potro (Argentina) beat Blaz Kavcic (Slovenia) 6-4 7-5 6-3         

 18-Feliciano Lopez (Spain) beat Flavio Cipolla (Italy) 7-5 7-6(4) 6-2                

 Alejandro Falla (Colombia) beat 8-Mardy Fish (U.S.) 7-6(4) 6-3 7-6(6)                

30-Kevin Anderson (South Africa) beat Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukraine) 3-6 6-1 7-6(3) 6-3

Lu Yen-Hsun (Taiwan) beat Florent Serra (France) 7-5 6-2 6-2 

7-Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) beat Olivier Rochus (Belgium) 6-1 6-0 7-6(4) 

 Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) beat Pere Riba (Spain) 6-0 4-0 (Riba retired)

 

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