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Mayer shocks Baghdatis

NICE: Unheralded Argentine Leonardo Mayer shocked fifth seed Marcos Baghdatis 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the semifinals of the Nice Open ATP tournament here on Thursday.

The 23-year-old Mayer, ranked 59, needed three hours to get past the world number 29 from Cyprus 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.

Baghdatis becomes the sixth seed to fall here with top seeded Swede Robin Soderling going out on Wednesday, along with fourth seed Thomaz Belluci of Brazil, Spaniard Albert Montanes (six), Germany's Michael Berrer (seven) and Pole Lukasz Kubot (eight).

Mayer will play either Spanish second seed Fernando Verdasco or Sergiy Stakhovsky of the Ukraine for a place in the final.

Somdev advances

Meanwhile on Wednesday, Somdev Devvarman stormed into the third round of the qualifying event of the French Open with a straight set thrashing of Daniel King-Turner.

The sixth seeded Indian scored an easy 6-1, 6-2 win over his Kiwi opponent in one hour and 12 minutes in the second round of the clay court Grand Slam's qualifiers.

In the third round, Somdev will take on Frenchman Adrian Mannarino who beat Ramon Delgado of Paraguay 6-2, 7-6 in a second round match.

The results:

At Nice (Nice Open): Quarterfinals: Leonardo Mayer bt Marcos Baghdatis 5-7, 6-3, 6-4; Fernando Verdasco bt Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-4. Second round: Gael Monfils bt Marco Chiudinelli 1-6, 6-1, 6-4; Olivier Rochus bt Robin Soderling 2-6, 6-4, 6-4; Fernando Verdasco bt Florent Serra 6-2, 6-2; Leonardo Mayer bt Thomaz Bellucci 6-4, 6-1; Marcos Baghdatis bt Simon Greul 6-3, 6-2; Potito Starace bt Lukasz Kubot 6-3, 6-4; Richard Gasquet bt Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-0, 2-6, 6-3.

At Warsaw (Warsaw Open): Quarterfinals: Zheng Jie bt Caroline Wozniacki 6-3 retd.; Li Na bt Sara Errani 6-2, 6-1; Alexandra Dulgheru bt Tsvetana Pironkova 6-4, 7-5. Second round: Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x1) bt Polona Hercog (SLO) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.

At Strasbourg (Strasbourg Open): Second round: Sofia Arvidsson bt Virginie Razzano 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.

At Dusseldorf (World Team Cup: Red Group: Czech Republic bt Australia 2-1; United States bt Spain 2-1. Blue Group: France bt Serbia 2-1; Argentina bt Germany 2-1 . — Agencies

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