| MONTE CARLO: Fourth seed Tomas Berdych slumped to a 6-4, 6-2 defeat against Fabio Fognini of Italy in the Monte Carlo Masters third round on Thursday. A semifinalist last year, Berdych, who had to recover from a break down in each set in the previous round to move past Spaniard Marcel Granollers, again struggled with his serve at the first big claycourt event of the season. The Czech was broken four times overall and barely managed to unsettle the 32nd-ranked Fognini, who also beat him in the first round in 2009.Fognini will face seventh seed Richard Gasquet of France or Marin Cilic, seeded nine, in the quarterfinals. Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga opened the day at the sunbathed venue by overwhelming Austrian Juergen Melzer 6-3, 6-0 to make it to the last eight and set up a potential clash with world number two Andy Murray. |
