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Zagreb: Stako Falls in First Round

No. 3 seed Mikhail Youzhny knocked off Sergiy 6-4, 7-6(4) in the first round at the PBZ Zagreb Indoors Tuesday. The match lasted one hour and 49 minutes. Youzhny leads the head-to-head series against Stako 3-1.

Sergiy dropped serve in the first game of the match and that was enough for Youzhny to take the opener 6-4 in 42 minutes. At 5-4 in the second set, the Russian had a break advantage, but wasted two match points as Sergiy broke back levelling at 5-all. Two games later the set went to a tiebreaker, which Youzhny won 7-4.

This is Stako's third appearance at the PBZ Zagreb Indoors. He won this tournament in 2008 and a year later reached the quarter-finals.