THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DEN BOSCH, Netherlands — Defending champion Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia lost 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (5) to Viktor Troicki of Serbia in the second round of the Ordina Open on Wednesday.
Ljubicic had 25 aces but still faced 11 break points during the match, saving 10 of them.
In the third-set tiebreaker, Ljubicic opened with two mini-breaks but then dropped five straight points.
In the quarter-finals, Troicki will face seventh-seeded Guillermo Canas of Argentina, who beat Rohan Bopana of India 6-2, 6-4.
Also Wednesday, Arnaud Clement of France beat Spain’s Marcel Granollers 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-3, and Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina beat Rainer Scheuttler of Germany 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5).
In the women’s event, local favourite Michaella Krajicek overpowered Sania Mirza of India 6-2, 6-2. Katarina Srebotnik of Slovakia, seeded seventh, beat Yung-Jan Chan of Taiwan 6-4, 6-3.