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Wimbledon 2008
June 22, 2008
Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis reached the second round on a sunny first day at Wimbledon on Monday with a workmanlike 6-3, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3 win against Belgian Steve Darcis.
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Baghdatis, who reached the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2006, survived three break points in the fifth game of the first set before seizing the initiative to take a 5-3 lead. He then won his serve to love.
In the second set, the Cypriot, who reached the quarter-finals of the Halle warm-up tournament last week losing to champion Roger Federer, twice broke Darcis's serve.
But the Belgian, ranked 51 in the world 26 places below Baghdatis, fought his way back in a tight tiebreak to land the third set before the Cypriot upped the pressure to tie up the match.
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