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Summary Top seed Novak Djokovic surged into the quarter-finals of the ATP Montreal Masters.
Novak Djokovic had a good day at the Rogers Cup, winning in straight sets then watching Roger Federer join Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray as an early casualty.The 24-year-old Serb kept up his strong season with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Marin Cilic of Croatia to reach the quarterfinals, when he will take on Gael Monfils, who progressed with a 3-6, 7-6 (0), 7-6 (5) win over Viktor Troicki.Hes now the last of the top four seeds left in the tournament after No 3 Federer was beaten by 13th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-1.The other seeded winners were Mardy Fish, Tomas Berdych, Nicolas Almagro and Stanislaw Wawrinka while Richard Gasquet was among the losers.In his second match since taking over the No 1 ranking with a victory at Wimbledon four weeks ago, Djokovic broke the lanky Cilics heavy serve twice in the second set to improve to 50-1 this year including 26-0 on hard courts.He beat another former top-10 player, Nikolay Davydenko, in straight sets in the second round.Ivan Dodig, the 41st-ranked Croat who beat Nadal, had little left a day later as he was beaten 6-1, 6-4 by unseeded Serb Janko Tipsarevic.Tipsarevic will face seventh-seeded Tomas Berdych in the quarter-finals. Berdych downed Ivo Karlovic 6-3, 7-6 (2).Switzerlands Wawrinka ousted South Africas Kevin Anderson who had eliminated Murray in the second round 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 and his next opponent will be American Fish, who defeated Latvias Ernests Gulbis 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
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