Montreal (AFP) – French ninth seed Gilles Simon levelled his record at the ATP Montreal Masters to 8-8 as he opened with a 6-2, 6-4 defeat of Italy’s Andreas Seppi on Monday.Simon, a semi-finalist in Canada in 2008 at Toronto, spent just under 90 minutes in advancing to the second round in the major tune-up event ahead of the August 31 start of the US Open.The world number 11 was joined as a winner by Sergiy Stakhovsky, who beat Canadian wild card Filip Peliwo 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 to set up a meeting with former champion Rafael Nadal in the second …read more
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