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Roddick, Robredo packed off

MADRID : Sixth seed Andy Roddick and World No. 8 Tommy Robredo suffered straight-set defeats in the third round of the Madrid Masters tennis on Thursday.

Czech Tomas Berdych toppled Roddick 7-6(7), 6-3 with the American ending the match complaining of pain in his left ankle, while the unseeded Robby Ginepri beat Spain's Robredo 6-3, 7-6(3).

Berdych will now play the winner of the match between defending champion Rafael Nadal and the 13th-seeded German Tommy Haas in the quarterfinals.

World No. 2 and second seed Rafael Nadal opened the defence of his Madrid Masters title with a comfortable 6-4, 6-2 win over American qualifier Mardy Fish on Wednesday.

Ljubicic upset

World No. 3 Ljubicic, who lost to Nadal in last year's final, was defeated by Britain's Andy Murray 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

After an exciting third-set tie-break, James Blake succumbed to Belgian Kristof Vliegen 6-4, 3-6, 7-6.

Davydenko went out to Sweden's Joachim Johansson 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3, while Cyprus's Marcos Baghdatis fell to Russian Marat Safin, the 2004 champion, 6-4, 6-3.

The other seeds to fall on Wednesday were Spain's 2003 winner Juan Carlos Ferrero who was seeded 16, as he lost to Sweden's Robin Soderling 6-3, 6-2. The 12th seed Mario Ancic of Croatia suffered a straight-set defeat 7-6, 7-6 to last year's semi-finalist American Robby Ginepri.

The results:

At Madrid (ATP Madrid Masters): Third round: Robby Ginepri bt Tommy Robredo 6-3, 7-6(3); Tomas Berdych bt Andy Roddick 7-6(7), 6-3. Second round: Marat Safin bt Marcos Baghdatis 6-4, 6-3; Joachim Johansson bt Nikolay Davydenko 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3; Rafael Nadal bt Mardy Fish 6-4, 6-2; Robin Soderling bt Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-3, 6-2; Novak Djokovic bt Richard Gasquet 7-6(2), 1-6, 6-1; Andy Murray bt Ivan Ljubicic 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Tomas Berdych bt Agustin Calleri 7-6(2), 6-3; Kristof Vliegen bt James Blake 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(5); Tommy Haas bt Dominik Hrbaty 6-3, 7-6(6); Fernando Gonzalez bt Paradorn Srichaphan 7-5, 6-7(5), 6-4; Robby Ginepri bt Mario Ancic 7-6(5), 7-6(5).

At Zurich (WTA Zurich Open): Second round: Amelie Mauresmo bt Samantha Stosur 7-6(4), 6-3; Daniela Hantuchova bt Ai Sugiyama 7-6(7), 6-2; Martina Hingis bt Nathalie Dechy 6-3, 6-3; Maria Kirilenko bt Tatiana Golovin 2-4 (retd.).

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