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Summary Ivan Ljubicic beat Karol Beck 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3 to reach second round of Zagreb Indoors tournament.
Top-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia beat Slovakias Karol Beck 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3 on Monday to advance to the second round of the Zagreb Indoors tournament.Ljubicic, the 2006 champion and a finalist in 2007 and 2008, made the decisive break in the eighth game of the third set. He didnt drop another point after that.He said it was a tough one, but it is important that I won and not how I did it. He added it was his first match for three months.Germanys Matthias Bachinger defeated Izak Van Der Merwe of South Africa, 6-3, 6-3, while another Slovak, Lukas Lacko, beat Italys Potito Starace 7-6 (2), 6-7 (4), 6-3.
