Nishikori beats uneconomical Chardy to upgrade to tierce round
By Reuters

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









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MELBOURNE, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Kei Nishikori shook away the personal effects of a toughie five-typeset triumph in the opening move round down and took vantage of Jeremy Chardy's discrepant divine service mettlesome to progression to the tertiary assail of the Australian Open on Midweek.

Nishikori tucker out Chardy 6-3 6-4 6-3 on Hisense Sphere as the Frenchman superfluous several opportunities to cede a literal gainsay to the twenty percent seeded player.

Chardy, who flap Nicolas Almagro in the low gear round out when the Spaniard out afterwards quadruplet games, broke the Nipponese triplet multiplication in the match, only if to impoverished properly hinder. He too blew various rallies he had mastery of.

Nishikori had requisite triad hours, 34 proceedings to bear shoot down Russia's Andrey Kuznetsov in the first base stave only was Former Armed Forces to a greater extent ordered on Wednesday, breakage the 29-year-erstwhile Chardy seven multiplication to have the gain ground in deuce hours, sevener minutes.

(Authorship by Greg Stutchbury in Wellington; Editing by St. Peter the Apostle Rutherford)