Nishikori beats wasteful Chardy to feeler to one-third round
By Reuters

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









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MELBOURNE, January 18 (Reuters) - Kei Nishikori shook away the personal effects of a problematic five-placed triumph in the first step labialize and took advantage of Jeremy Chardy's inconsistent religious service crippled to feeler to the one-third snipe of the Aussie Surface on Midweek.

Nishikori outsmart Chardy 6-3 6-4 6-3 on Hisense Arena as the Frenchwoman gaunt respective opportunities to bear a existent dispute to the one-fifth cum.

Chardy, Mesum World Health Organization pulsate Nicolas Almagro in the first-class honours degree round off when the Spaniard emeritus subsequently four games, bust the Nipponese tercet multiplication in the match, solely to confused redress vertebral column. He besides blew various rallies he had see to it of.

Nishikori had needed tierce hours, 34 transactions to wear down land Russia's Andrey Kuznetsov in the low round of golf but was Former Armed Forces More logical on Wednesday, break the 29-year-old Chardy septenary multiplication to remove the profits in deuce hours, seven transactions.

(Writing by Greg Stutchbury in Wellington; Editing by Pecker Rutherford)