LONDON — Australia's Marinko Matosevic ended Marin Cilic's attempt to reach a third consecutive Queen's Club final at the first hurdle with a surprise 6-4, 6-4 victory Tuesday. Cilic won the Wimbledon warm-up tournament in 2012 when his opponent David Nalbandian was disqualified in the final for kicking an advertising board into the shins of a lines judge. Matosevic, the world No. 60, clinched a second-round match against Matthew Ebden or Lukas Lacko. South Africa's Kevin Anderson, the seventh seeded world No. 18, advanced to the third round with a 6-2, 6-3 win against British wild card Dan Evans. Evans had shocked Austria's Jurgen Melzer in the first round, but he was swept aside in just 65 minutes by the big-serving 6ft 8in Anderson, who was given a bye into the second round like the other top eight seeds. Belgium's David Goffin was too strong for promising Austrian Dominic Thiem, who was earmarked as a potential star by world No. 1 Rafael Nadal after their second round clash at the French Open last month. But his lack of experience of grass was ruthlessly exposed by Goffin and the world No. 105 swept to a 6-4, 6-2 victory which secured a second round meeting with former Queen's runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. As a former Wimbledon semifinalist Marcos Baghdatis knows his way around a grass-court and the Cypriot wild card, a 6-7 (6-8), 6-2, 6-1 winner over American Bradley Klahn, could present a tricky second round test for top seed Stan Wawrinka, the world No. 3 who won the Australian Open earlier this year. Canada's Vasek Pospisil, the world No. 35, defeated Italian Paolo Lorenzi 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the first round to end an eight-match losing run that stretched back to February. Finland's Jarkko Nieminen saved three match points before defeating Benoit Paire of France 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (1) to reach the second round. He next faces 12th-seeded Russian Dmitry Tursunov, who defeated Dutchman Igor Sijsling 6-3, 6-4. Tenth-seeded Spaniard Feliciano Lopez needed three sets — and two days — to overcome Serbia's Dusan Lajovic 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-1 in a match that had been suspended overnight because of rain. His next opponent is four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt. Karlovic ousts Youzhny In Germany, last year's runner-up Mikhail Youzhny was sent crashing out of the ATP Halle grasscourt tournament Tuesday, undone 6-3, 6-4 by the big serving Ivo Karlovia. The giant Croat, ranked 33rd in the world, sent down 22 aces in the short space of time in a 73-minute first round match with the Russian powerless to do anything about it. Karlovic set up a second round tie against Taiwan's Yen-Hsun Lu who defeated Croatian qualifier Mate Pavic 7-6 (7-2), 6-7 (11-13), 7-6 (7-5) in a match that lasted 2 hours 44 minutes. There was an early exit also for another top grass-court player in the form of Frenchman Richard Gasquet who fell 6-4, 6-4 to Robin Haase of the Netherlands. French showman Gael Monfils won his way through to the second round with a 7-1, 7-5 win over Germany's Benjamin Becker. Russian banned for life Russian player Andrey Kumantsov has been banned from tennis for life after being found guilty of multiple match-fixing and gambling offenses between 2010 and 2013, The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) announced Tuesday. A TIU statement said that 27-year-old Kumantsov had been found guilty of 12 such charges after an investigation and a hearing held in London on June 2. Kumantsov, who is described as being inactive on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) website, reached a career-high world ranking of 261 in September 2009. — Agencies
