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Summary Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray won their respective second round matches in Paris Masters.
Novak Djokovic dismissed Ivan Dodig of Croatia 6-4, 6-3 in the Paris Masters second round on Wednesday showing no signs of the shoulder injury that bothered him last weekend at the Swiss Indoors.The top-ranked Serb had complained of shoulder pains in his semifinal loss to Kei Nishikori in Basel. But he said he was fine after practice on Tuesday.Andy Murray and Roger Federer also moved into the third round.Murray improved his record to 16-0 since the US Open by beating Jeremy Chardy of France 6-2, 6-4, and Federer cruised past French wild card Adrian Mannarino 6-2, 6-3.I thought it was a decent start, Murray said. I mean, I didnt lose my serve. I dont think he had any break points, so that was good.While some players have complained about the slowness of the surface, Federer wasnt among them.In Paris, its faster than (four) years ago when I lost against Nalbandian, Federer said. It was almost like the French Open No. 2.Mardy Fish is just one win away from securing his spot for the ATP World Tour Finals after routing Florian Mayer of Germany 6-1, 6-2.David Ferrer of Spain, Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine and John Isner of the United States also won in straight sets to advance.The fourth-seeded Ferrer beat Nicolas Mahut of France 6-4, 6-4. Mahut double-faulted to drop serve at 1-1 before sending a backhand return long to lose the first set. The Spaniard clinched victory on an unforced error to next meet Dolgopolov who downed Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 6-3, 7-6 (6).The 11th-seeded Tipsarevic defeated Alex Bogomolov Jr. of the United States 6-1, 6-0. Bogomolov took the opening game before losing 12 in a row. Tipsarevic will next play Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic.Isner ousted Igor Kunitsyn of Russia 6-4, 6-4 and was praised by Murray for his big serve.No. 8 Gael Monfils of France and No. 9 Nicolas Almagro of Spain were the only seeded players to lose Wednesday. Andreas Seppi of Italy downed Almagro 6-3, 7-5 and Monfils lost 6-3, 6-4 to Feliciano Lopez of Spain.
