Canada wildcard Milos Raonic Spanish Fernando Verdasco defeated for the second time in four days, going to the second round of the ATP-WTA tournament in Memphis.
Raonic ousted second seed Verdasco 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7 / 5) to $ 1,320,000 event, booking the date of the second round against Czech Radek Stepanek.
Sunday, Raonic defeated seeded Verdasco 7-6 (06/08), 7-6 (05/07) in the final of the ATP San Jose, denying the Spanish their second consecutive title at the event by becoming the first Canadian ATP singles winner in 16 years.
In contrast, Verdasco and Raonic traded breaks in games 11 and 12 of the third round to set the automatic link to decide who will Raonic after two hours and one minute.
Also a second round was 2009 in early U.S. Open winner Juan Martin del Potro, who killed American sixth seed John Isner's famous marathon man of Wimbledon won the longest match in tennis history, 6-4, 6-3 in 74 minutes.
Argentina joker Del Potro, who lost a semifinal last Saturday Verdasco, returning from a wrist injury that required surgery last May and reduced his 2010 campaign. He faces Croat Ivan Dodig next.
Australian Lleyton Hewitt ousted seventh seed Taiwanese Yen-Hsun Lu 6-4, 7-6 (7 / 3), while American third seed Melanie Oudin was also sent packing, leaving only one head series in women quarterfinals.
The former world number one Hewitt booked a second round of France Adrian Mannarino track for a spot in the quarterfinals opposite Serbian Janko Tipsarevic or the top U.S. seed Andy Roddick.
the woman, Russian Evgeniya Rodina bounced Oudin 6-1, 7-5 in the seventh as the eight seeds left. Rodina Heather Watson next face British qualifier, who defeated French qualifier Stephanie Foretz Gacon 6-2, 5-7, 6-4.
