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Moodie Makes
Washington Progress
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African Wesley Moodie moved through
to the second round of the Legg
Mason Tennis Classic in Washington
on Tuesday with a 6-3, 6-4 victory
over American Ryan Sweeting.
The 28-year-old,
who joined the Monte-Carlo Tennis
Academy in June, will now face No.
12 seed Vincent Spadea in the
$600,000 ATP tour event.
“I’m relatively
pleased with the way I played,” said
the 2005 Wimbledon doubles champion.
“There was a lot of big serving in
the match. I took advantage of some
second serves to get the break in
the middle of the first set. He was
really on a roll on his serve until
I stepped back two metres on his
serve at 4-4 in the second and
played a good game to break.”
Moodie, who
joined the Academy with the aim of
breaking into the world’s Top 50,
has been delighted with his progress
so far. “A few things that I’ve been
working on with Dave [Sammel] and
Jez [Green] have definitely started
becoming more natural and obviously
helped with the end result,” said
Moodie. “There’s still some work to
be done though.”
Moodie is also
through to the second round of the
doubles with Australian partner Todd
Perry. After their first round win
over Jamie Murray and Eric Butorac,
Moodie and Perry face a potential
meeting with top seeds Bob and Mike
Bryan should the Americans overcome
Paul Goldstein and Trip Phillips.
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