Campbell's Tennis Championships: No. 1 Seed Isner Advances with Wild Cards Kudla and Haas

On day two of the all three wild cards, John Isner, Tommy Haas and Denis Kudla, advanced to the second round.

No. 1 seed Isner defeated Karol Beck of Slovakia; former world No. 2 Haas overcame his German countryman Michael Berrer; and in the closest singles match of the day, 18-year-old Denis Kudla triumphed overIvo Karlovic, 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-4.

In a close doubles match that kept the crowd on the edge of their seats, Marcelo Melo and Andre Sa, both of Brazil, defeated Alex Bogomolov Jr. and Dustin Brown, 67(1) 76(5) 10-6.

On Wednesday, play will begin at 11 a.m.with last year's finalist Olivier Rochus of Belgium facing Frenchman Nicolas Mahut, who was a finalist at the tournament in 2007.

Next match on Center Court will be Isner versus Arnaud Clement of France, who overcame popular young American Ryan Harrison today. American Donald Young with face Tobias Kamke of Germany. Closing out the day on Center Court will be a battle of the young stars when Kudla faces Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria, who is the second youngest player in the world top-100, currently ranked No. 60 at age 20.

  
RESULTS - JULY 5, 2011

Singles - First Round
[1] [WC] J Isner (USA) d K Beck (SVK) 63 62
[Q] J Wang (TPE) d [3] I Kunitsyn (RUS) 46 75 62
M Ebden (AUS) d [4] R Sweeting (USA) 64 62
[WC] T Haas (GER) d [7] M Berrer (GER) 76(9) 64
[8] T Kamke (GER) d [Q] A Bogdanovic (GBR) 76(3) 63
A Clement (FRA) d R Harrison (USA) 64 61
E Roger-Vasselin (FRA) d [Q] R Bloomfield (GBR) 64 60
N Mahut (FRA) d S Decoud (ARG) 61 60
[Q] M Yani (USA) d D Sela (ISR) 76(5) 63
[WC] D Kudla (USA) d I Karlovic (CRO) 76(4) 46 64

Doubles - First Round
[2] M Melo (BRA) / A Sa (BRA) d A Bogomolov Jr. (USA) / D Brown (GER) 67(1) 76(5) 10-6
I Karlovic (CRO) / F Moser (GER) d [3] J Cerretani (USA) / P Marx (GER) 75 62
R Bemelmans (BEL) / O Rochus (BEL) d G Dimitrov (BUL) / K Skupski (GBR) 64 64

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ORDER OF PLAY - WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2011

CENTER start 11:00 am
[6] O Rochus (BEL) vs N Mahut (FRA) 
[1] [WC] J Isner (USA) vs A Clement (FRA) 
D Young (USA) vs [8] T Kamke (GER) 
[WC] D Kudla (USA) vs [2] G Dimitrov (BUL)

COURT 1 start 11:00 am
[1] S Lipsky (USA) / R Ram (USA) vs J Delgado (GBR) / J Marray (GBR) 
R Bemelmans (BEL) vs [5] A Bogomolov Jr. (USA) 
[WC] T Haas (GER) vs [Q] M Yani (USA) 
[WC] A Fisher (AUS) / J Kerr (AUS) vs A Clement (FRA) / N Mahut (FRA) 
D Gremelmayr (GER) / T Kamke (GER) vs K Beck (SVK) / D Sela (ISR)

COURT 2 start 11:00 am
M Bachinger (GER) vs M Ebden (AUS) 
[Q] J Wang (TPE) vs E Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 
M Bachinger (GER) / M Kohlmann (GER) vs [4] J Brunstrom (SWE) / A Shamasdin (CAN) 
T Huey (PHI) / R Sweeting (USA) vs [WC] M Ebden (AUS) / R Harrison (USA)  

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