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Watching all of these European clay tournaments really brings back the gladiatorial theme to tennis. You have participants grinding it out on red clay for hours, producing body blow after body blow with powerful groundstrokes. And in the end, you have a winner, who raises his or her arms in triumph to a stadium looking down upon the victor like the mob once did in the Colosseum centuries ago.
Fifth seed Bernard Tomic reached his first ATP World Tour clay-court quarter-final on Thursday as he edged Italian Potito Starace 6-1, 6-7(4), 6-3 in the second round of the BMW Open in Munich. The Australian trailed by a break of serve in the final set, but reeled off six of the last seven games to prevail in just over two hours.
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Eighth seed Marcos Baghdatis notched his first clay-court win of the season on Tuesday in Munich as he defeated Germany’s Tobias Kamke 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 in the first round of the BMW Open. The Cypriot broke serve four times and saved six of the eight break points he faced to clinch victory in one hour and 56 minutes in his first meeting with Kamke.
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