Tennis news - Mikhail Youzhny bows out with defeat in St Petersburg
ByPA Sport
Updated 20/09/2018 at 21:47 GMT
Mikhail Youzhny saw his career come to an end after losing over three sets to Roberto Bautista Agut in the second round of the St Petersburg Open.
Mikhail Youzhny of Russia
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The 36-year-old Russian had already announced his intention to bow out at the end of his home tournament, and was denied a 500th career victory by the fifth seed.
After losing the first set on a tie-break, Youzhny drew level before Buatista Agut finished off a 7-6(8/6) 3-6 6-3 win to book his spot in the quarter-finals.
Top seed Dominic Thiem joined the Spaniard with a straight-sets win over Jan-Lennard Struff
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Dominic Thiem
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The Austrian, French Open runner-up earlier this year, needed a tie-break to take the first set but eventually ran out 7-6 (7/4) 6-4 winner.
Italian third seed Marco Cecchinato, beaten by Thiem in the semi-finals at Roland Garros, was a 7-5 7-6 (8/6) winner over Lukas Lacko.
Canadian seventh seed Denis Shapovalov needed three sets to get past Matteo Berrettini 7-6 (8/6) 4-6 6-0, while Daniil Medvedev defeated Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3 6-4 and Damir Dzumhur sank Guido Pella 6-4 6-4.
Elsewhere Stefanos Tsitsipas was a shock second-round casualty at the Moselle Open in Metz.
The 20-year-old second seed from Greece, who last month beat four top-10 players including Novak Djokovic in Toronto, lost 6-7 (5/7) 7-6 (8/6) 6-3 to world number 103 Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania.
Benoit Paire went down 6-4 3-6 6-3 to Yannick Maden but Gilles Simon gave the French crowd something to cheer with a 4-6 7-5 7-5 win over Serbian seventh seed Filip Krajinovic.
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