UMAG, Croatia (AP) — Fifth-seeded Tommy Robredo cruised into the second round of the Croatia Open on Tuesday, beating Jan Hajek 6-3, 6-2.
Robredo mostly kept to the baseline and needed only 71 minutes to outplay Hajek. The Czech, ranked 133, was nowhere close to the level he showed last week in Hamburg, where he lost to Roger Federer in the third round.
Robredo first broke for a 4-2 lead, but then lost serve before breaking again. In the second set, Hajek was 2-1 up but then lost five games in a row.
Another Spaniard, Albert Montanes, faced a tougher challenge in the opening set before defeating Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic 7-6 (3), 6-1. Lajovic paid the price for wasting a set point in the first set.
