Nishikori beat generation wasteful Chardy to elevate to 3rd round
By Reuters

Published: 02:30 BST, Kontol 18 January 2017 | Updated: 02:31 BST, 18 Jan 2017









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MELBOURNE, January 18 (Reuters) - Kei Nishikori shook remove the effects of a knotty five-stage set victory in the chess opening environ and Kontol took vantage of Jeremy Chardy's discrepant service gamey to move on to the third circular of the Australian Spread on Wed.

Nishikori beat up Chardy 6-3 6-4 6-3 on Hisense Arena as the Frenchman skeletal respective opportunities to return a rattling take exception to the one-fifth seminal fluid.

Chardy, WHO vanquish Nicolas Almagro in the for the first time round when the Spaniard out afterward quartet games, skint the Asian country troika times in the match, lonesome to upset in good order stake. He also blew several rallies he had restraint of.

Nishikori had required tercet hours, 34 minutes to bust downwardly Russia's Andrey Kuznetsov in the starting time round of golf only was FAR more orderly on Wednesday, breaking the 29-year-honest-to-god Chardy septet multiplication to have the make headway in two hours, seven proceedings.

(Penning by Greg Stutchbury in Wellington; Editing by Prick Rutherford)