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Tipsarevic through to face Federer in Basel

Published Nov 02, 2010

BASEL, Switzerland (AP) Janko Tipsarevic defeated Denis Istomin 6-2, 6-4 Tuesday to advance to a second-round meeting with three-time champion Roger Federer at the Swiss Indoors.

Tipsarevic broke his Uzbek opponent three times. The 46th-ranked Serb has lost both his previous matches against Federer.

Also Tuesday, Richard Gasquet defeated Yen-hsun Lu 6-3, 6-1, Santiago Giraldo of Colombia stopped Karol Beck 6-2, 6-1 and Viktor Troicki beat Michael Berrer 6-3, 6-0.