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11/8/10 8:57 PM | Cheryl Murray
In the first upset of the Paris Masters so far, wildcard Arnaud Clement of France took out Spain’s Feliciano Lopez in a highly dramatic two-hour and 40-minute match.
Arnaud Clement def. Feliciano Lopez 6-7(8), 7-6(7), 6-3
The first-round matchup between Feliciano Lopez and Arnaud Clement was nearly comical in the way it played out. The first set and almost all of the second featured a battle of serving. Clement had a pair of break point chances, but couldn’t convert. Otherwise, neither man made any dent at all with the return. There was a combined 19 aces in the first set alone and Lopez just squeaked out the lead in the first set breaker.
The second set played almost identically to the first, except that Lopez double-faulted to give away the second set tiebreaker to the Frenchman, thus starting his downward spiral. At 0-1 in the third set, with the Spaniard serving, he donated a series of three double-faults at 15-15 to gift wrap the only break of the match for Clement.
Benjamin Becker def. Denis Istomin 6-4, 6-4
Germany’s Benjamin Becker moved into the second round in Paris with a defeat of Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin. The match was fairly straightforward for the German. He was broken once in the first set, but he managed to break Istomin twice for the one-set advantage. Becker staved off both break points against him in the second and once again managed to take the set and match with a single break.
Becker will take on in-form Frenchman Gael Monfils in the second round.
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