09. 02. 2010. ·
No.1 seed Novak Djokovic advanced into the second round of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament. He was leading 6-2, 4-1 when world no.69 Ukranian Sergiy Stakhovsky retired after 54 minutes of play.
The best Serbian tennis player now leads their head-to-heads 2-0.
Novak broke Stakhovsky’s service four times, in the third and fifth games of both sets.
Djokovic will face world no.54 Marco Chiudinelli for a place in the quarterfinals. The Swiss defeated 2008 champion Frenchman Michael Llodra in three sets 6-1, 6-7(5), 7-6(6).
This will be their second match in 2010. Nole beat Chiudinelli in the second round of Australian Open. The result was 3-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3.
The match is scheduled on Thursday.
