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Frenchman Simon suffers early exit in Monte Carlo

MONTE CARLO (Reuters) - Last year's semi-finalist Gilles Simon suffered a shock 6-3 7-6 loss to Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut in the Monte Carlo Masters first round on Monday. Roared on by the crowd, the 11th-seeded Frenchman saved five match points in the tiebreak before handing his opponent victory with a netted backhand. Simon has struggled on clay this year, also losing the decisive match when France lost to Argentina in the Davis Cup quarter-finals last weekend.

UPDATE 7-Tennis-Indian Wells men's singles round 2 results

March 10 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Indian Wells Men's Singles Round 2 matches on Saturday 6-Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) beat Mischa Zverev (Germany) 6-2 6-4 5-Rafa Nadal (Spain) beat Ryan Harrison (U.S.) 7-6(3) 6-2 Ernests Gulbis (Latvia) beat 9-Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) 6-2 6-0 27-Florian Mayer (Germany) beat David Goffin (Belgium) 6-4 6-2 10-Richard Gasquet (France) beat Bernard Tomic (Australia) 7-6(1) 6-2 20-Andreas Seppi (Italy) beat Daniel Brands (Germany) 7-5 6-4 Ivan Dodig (Croa

UPDATE 3-Tennis-Marseille Open men's singles round 2 results

Feb 21 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Marseille Open Men's Singles Round 2 matches on Thursday 7-Jerzy Janowicz (Poland) beat Julien Benneteau (France) 7-6(0) 6-3 2-Juan Martin Del Potro (Argentina) beat Michael Llodra (France) 3-6 7-6(4) 7-5 6-Gilles Simon (France) beat Roberto Bautista (Spain) 6-3 6-1 Dmitry Tursunov (Russia) beat 4-Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) 7-6(4) 6-2

UPDATE 1-Tennis-Del Potro on fire as he sets up final with Benneteau

(Recasts after second semi-final) By Theo Ruizenaar ROTTERDAM, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Argentine Juan Martin del Potro is favourite to add his name to the banner of champions wrapped around the Ahoy Arena after beating Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov 6-4 6-4 at the World Indoor Tournament on Saturday. Runner-up last year, he will face Julien Benneteau, conqueror of champion Roger Federer, in Sunday's final after the Frenchman eliminated compatriot Gilles Simon 6-4 7-6.

Tennis: Benneteau stuns Federer in Rotterdam

Defending champion and top seed Roger Federer was knocked out of the Rotterdam World Tennis tournament on Friday, losing 6-3, 7-5 to France's Julien Benneteau in the quarter-finals. Benneteau will face either Martin Klizan of Slovakia or French fifth seed Gilles Simon in the last four. dj/mw

Tennis-Federer warms up for title defence by freezing out Zemlja

By Theo Ruizenaar LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Roger Federer struggled to see the ball and felt the conditions at the World Indoor Tournament were a little too warm for his liking but that did not stop the top seed from romping to a 6-3 6-1 win over Slovenian Grega Zemlja in the first round on Wednesday. Playing his first competitive match for almost three weeks, the Swiss defending champion struggled with his first serve in front of a capacity 10,500 crowd but he still completed victory in 58 minutes.

UPDATE 3-Tennis-World Indoor Tournament men's singles round 1 results

Feb 11 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the World Indoor Tournament Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Monday Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria) beat Bernard Tomic (Australia) 6-3 3-6 6-3 Matteo Viola (Italy) beat Marcel Granollers (Spain) 5-7 6-3 6-1 5-Gilles Simon (France) beat Daniel Brands (Germany) 7-6(3) 6-4 Martin Klizan (Slovakia) beat Paul-Henri Mathieu (France) 6-4 3-6 7-5 Victor Hanescu (Romania) beat 7-Jerzy Janowicz (Poland) 7-6(4) 6-3

UPDATE 5-Tennis-Montpellier International men's singles round 2 results

Feb 7 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Montpellier International Men's Singles Round 2 matches on Thursday 6-Julien Benneteau (France) beat Victor Hanescu (Romania) 6-4 6-4 3-Richard Gasquet (France) beat Gael Monfils (France) 6-3 2-6 6-3 Michael Llodra (France) beat 2-Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) 6-3 7-6(4) Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukraine) beat Tatsuma Ito (Japan) 6-7(4) 6-4 7-6(3) 4-Gilles Simon (France) beat Arnau Brugues (Spain) 7-6(5) 6-2 Jan Hajek (Czech Republic) beat 7-Viktor Tr
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