SHANGHAI — Seventh-seeded Juan Monaco was upset by fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6-4, 6-2 Tuesday in the second round of the Shanghai Masters. The 23rd-ranked Verdasco broke his opponent three times and hold serve throughout the match. “I think I played a great match from the beginning until the end,” Verdasco said. “I knew how I was supposed to play to beat him and I think I did it pretty well,” he added. Earlier, eighth-seeded American John Isner saved three match points in the third-set tiebreaker before outlasting Kevin Anderson of South Africa 7-6 (3), 6-7 (8), 7-6 (7). In a match where neither play dropped his serve, Isner hit 24 aces while Anderson had 21. “The quality was good as far as serving goes,” said Isner, who wasted a match point in the second-set tiebreaker. Kei Nishikori, who is coming off a win at home at the Tokyo Open last week, had little trouble securing a 6-2, 6-4 first-round win over wild-card entry Wu Di of China. “Obviously, it's not easy thing to play after winning the tournament,” said the 15th-ranked Nishikori. “You want to rest. But I had a good day today.” Florian Mayer of Germany eased to a 6-4, 6-0 first-round win over Bernard Tomic of Australia in just 45 minutes. In other first-round matches, No. 12 Milos Raonic of Canada beat Marinko Matosevic of Australia 7-6 (4), 6-3, 13th-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland ousted Albert Ramos of Spain 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5), and 15th-seeded Gilles Simon of France beat Jurgen Melzer of Austria 6-4, 6-2. Zheng beats Sanchez In Osaka, second-seeded Zheng Jie of China advanced to the second round of the Japan Open Tuesday with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 win over Maria Jose Martina Sanchez of Spain. Zheng broke her opponent three times in the final set to wrap up the win in 2 hours, 43 minutes at the Utsubo Tennis Center and will face France's Pauline Parmentier in the second round. In other matches, sixth-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues also dropped the first set but recovered for a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 win over Italy's Camila Giorgi. In the day's only upset, wild-card entry Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand beat fifth-seeded Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-2. France's Virginie Razzano booked a second-round meeting with top-seeded Sam Stosur after defeating Thai qualifier Nudnida Luangnam 6-3. 6-3. Laura Robson of Britain, Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa and Mirjana Lucic of Croatia also advanced. Arvidsson ousts Safarova In Austria, Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden rallied to defeat fourth-seeded Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 Monday in the opening round of the Generali Ladies. Arvidsson failed to serve out the match at 5-3, but broke the 18th-ranked Safarova again at 6-5 in the indoor hard-court event. The Swede will face another Czech, Lucie Hradecka, who beat Silvia Soler-Espinosa of Spain 6-3, 7-6 (5). Also, Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands defeated Mona Barthel of Germany 7-6 (3), 1-6, 6-1 after winning all of her service points in the decider. She hadn't won a set against Barthel in their three previous matches. — Agencies
