Hamburg Masters

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Murray, Verdasco, Safin into second round of Hamburg Masters


HAMBURG: British number one Andy Murray moved into the second round of the Hamburg Masters with a comfortable 6-4 6-1 victory over Russia's Dmitry Tursunov.

Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfred Tsonga staged an impressive recovery to join Murray in the second round as he saw off fellow Frenchman Nicolas Mahut 0-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-3.

But 10th seed Mikhail Youzhny is out, beaten 6-3 6-2 by Spain's Fernando Verdasco.

And Marat Safin - who had to come through qualifying - also reached the second round with a 7-5 6-2 win over Croatia's Marin Cilic.

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Nadal trumps Federer again on clay

Spain's Rafael Nadal struck a telling psychological blow a week before the French Open by beating world number one Roger Federer in the final of the Hamburg Masters in Germany on Sunday.
The Spaniard claimed the only Masters Series event on clay to have eluded him by ousting the Swiss top seed 7-5 6-7 6-3 to give him the perfect preparation for the defence of his Roland Garros crown in Paris.
Federer, the defending champion who ended Nadal's 81-match unbeaten run on clay in last year's Hamburg final, began the match strongly, opening up a 5-1 lead and twice serving for the set.
But Nadal refused to lie down and reeled off the next six games to take the first set and then broke the Federer serve in the opening game of the second.
The Swiss broke back twice and missed a chance to level the match serving at 5-3 but upped his game in the tiebreak, winning it 7-3.
Nadal got the crucial break in the fourth game of the deciding set and closed out the match with a whipped crosscourt backhand winner after just under three hours of play.