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Young tops Garcia-Lopez in Thailand

Donald Young, shown playing at the 2011 U.S. Open, eliminated defending champion Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in second-round play Thursday at the PTT Thailand Open. UPI/Monika Graff
Donald Young, shown playing at the 2011 U.S. Open, eliminated defending champion Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in second-round play Thursday at the PTT Thailand Open. UPI/Monika Graff | License Photo

BANGKOK, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Donald Young ousted defending champion Guillermo Garcia-Lopez during second-round play Thursday at the PTT Thailand Open tennis tournament.

Young claimed a 6-1, 6-7 (0-7), 7-5 victory over the fourth-seeded Garcia-Lopez in a match that took move the 2 1/2 hours. Garcia-Lopez fired nine aces and didn't commit a double fault but had his serve broken five times, including twice in the third set.

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No. 1-seeded Andy Murray had little trouble dispatching Michael Berrer 6-4, 6-2. Their match took just 70 minutes with Murray winning 75 percent of the points on serve saving both break points created by Berrer.

Gail Monfils, the No. 2 seed, needed a third set to advance to the quarterfinals. He defeated Santiago Giraldo 6-4, 4-6, 6-1. Monfils lost two points over his three third-set service games.

Qualifier Go Soeda beat Tobias Kamke 6-2, 7-6 (9-7) and Grigor Dimitrov took a 7-6 (10-8), 6-1 decision from Simone Bolelli in Thursday's other matches.

Friday's quarterfinals schedule calls for Murray to take on Dimitrov and third-seeded Gilles Simon to battle Matthias Bachinger in the top half of the bracket. The other matches are Soeda versus Young and Monfils against Jarkko Nieminen.

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The Thailand Open title, to be decided Sunday, is worth $107,000.

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