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Ferrero Advances to Third Round

28th August

2003

written by kat

by Brad Falkner
28 August 2003
French Open Champion Juan Carlos Ferrero (aka “The Mosquito”) got off to a slow start, but regrouped to advance into the third round of the 2003 US Open with a 1-6, 7-6(2), 6-2, 6-4 triumph over Austrian Jurgen Melzer.
For the first two sets of the match, Melzer looked like a man capable of taking the sting out of “The Mosquito.”
Melzer’s crafty all-court acumen gave Ferrero fits in the first set, when he squashed the mosquito in 27 minutes. Ferrero struggled to find a rhythm on his serve, being broken in the second and sixth games of the set.
Ferrero fell behind early in the match, but took control the rest of the way with an array of blazing groundstrokes and an effective serves.
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