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  • Audio: Queens Club day one summary

    6/9/08 11:10 PM | Cheryl Murray
    - There were no big surprises in the bottom half of the draw as Hewitt and Tipsarevic ease through to round two in straight sets.

    Lleyton Hewitt was impressive in his 2008 grass season debut on Monday, as he breezed past British Wildcard Josh Goodall in straight sets. Hewitt lost a shocker of a match to Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the opening round of the Artois Championships last year. Goodall posed little threat to the four time Queens Club champion (2000-2002, 2006), as Hewitt put away the match in just over seventy minutes.

    He said of the match, “I felt like I served smartly throughout the match, hit my spots well when I needed to. On my returns, I felt like I was putting a lot more pressure on him than he was on my service games.” Goodall has now lost all seven of the ATP tour level matches he has played. Hewitt will face the tricky thirteen seed, Janko Tipsarevic in round two.

    Also through to round two was Marin Cilic. The Croat needed two tiebreaks, which he won at two and five, to get past Austrian veteran Jurgen Melzer. Each man was broken just once in the first set and not at all in the second. The difference in the match was simply that Cilic played the better tiebreaks. Cilic's next opponent is Paul Henri Mathieu, the seventh seeded Frenchman.

    Viktor Troicki and Janko Tipsarevic are also through in straight sets, along with Fernando Verdasco, whose opponent, Hyung-Taik Lee, was forced to retire at 3-5 down in the first set.

    Hewitt liked his serving in first-round win.


    Hewitt said he took it easy.

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