BRASIL OPEN 2011
Volandri Halts Hanescu In Costa Do Sauipe Opener
Costa do Sauipe, Brazil
by ATP Staff
|07.02.2011
Italian Filippo Volandri earned his first tour-level win of the 2011 season as he knocked out No. 8 seed Victor Hanescu of Romania 7-5, 6-1 on Monday at the Brasil Open, the second stop of the Latin America clay-court swing.
Volandri, a former World No. 25, won four of five break points and dropped serve once as he improved to a 3-1 head-to-head record against the 56th-ranked Hanescu. The two 29 year olds were facing off for the first time in six years.
Coming into Costa do Sauipe, Volandri had not won a match on the ATP World Tour since the final clay-court tournament of the 2010 season in September at Bucharest. He posted his best results on the Challenger circuit last year, winning two titles from four finals.
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Two Spaniards also advanced in Day 1 action at the ATP World Tour 250 tournament. Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo dismissed Brazilian wild card Fernando Romboli 6-4, 6-2 in one hour and 17 minutes, while Pablo Andujar took the same amount of time to record a 6-3, 6-1 win over countryman Daniel Gimeno-Traver.
In the night match featuring two Brazilian wild cards, Joao Souza defeated Guilherme Clezar 6-3, 6-2 to set up a second-round meeting with top seed and past champion Nicolas Almagro.
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