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Simon, Ferrer advance; Hewitt holds on

Reuters

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

CINCINNATI, Ohio -- Ninth seed Gilles Simon booked his place in the third round of the Cincinnati Masters on Tuesday after a 7-6 (5), 6-7 (6), 6-1 win over Russian Igor Andreev. After two tough sets, the Frenchman ran away with the decider to secure a meeting with either eighth seed Nikolay Davydenko or another Russian Igor Kunitsyn, who upset American James Blake 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 6-4. Croatian 14th seed Marin Cilic was beaten 7-6 (4), 6-2 by Spaniard David Ferrer in the day's other second- ...

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