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Summary Mardy Fish becomes the first big casualty at the Shanghai Masters.
Fifth seed Mardy Fish became the first big casualty at the Shanghai Masters when he lost to 49th-ranked Bernard Tomic but fellow American Andy Roddick did make the third round.World number nine Fish began well but started overhitting his returns and crumpled in the second before Australian Tomic broke serve at 4-4 in the third with a crosscourt backhand and went on to seal a 4-6 6-1 6-4 win. A frustrated Roddick battled through by defeating Bulgarias Grigor Dimitrov 7-6 7-5.The pressure got to the former world number one, who smashed his bag against his leg during a tense second set peppered with five breaks of serve. Germanys Florian Mayer beat former world number three David Nalbandian of Argentina 6-3 6-4.First seed Rafa Nadal and Britains world number four Andy Murray, who beat the Spaniard in the Japan final last Sunday, play their first matches on Wednesday (October 12). Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer pulled out of the week-long tournament.On Tuesday, Murray joked with the media as he unveiled a terracotta statue of himself at the Qizhong Tennis Centre. Nadal, speaking at a news conference, said that he needs to improve his serve. “I have to serve a little bit better because a lot of players are playing really well today and for a moment you cannot do much when they are playing very well so you have to be there surviving with your serve and thats something that I have to do for next year for sure,” said the Spaniard.
