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Vucic Cruises Past Karusevich
 Ilija
Vucic moved through to the third
round of the Open International
Juniors de Beaulieu sur Mer in
France after an impressive straight
sets victory over seventh seeded
Russian Vladimir Karusevich on
Tuesday.
Ilija, who defeated French wild card
Romain Sichez in the first round,
continued his exceptional form with
a 6-3, 6-4 win against Karusevich,
the Russian ranked 92 places above
Ilija at No. 43 in the world.
“I played good today and I’m really
happy I won this match,” said Ilija.
“I was really tough on the court, I
was giving it my best and I improved
with the result.”
The win will go down as one of the
best of Ilija’s young career so far
with Karusevich having won
back-to-back titles earlier this
year at the Slovak Junior Indoors
and the Czech Junior International,
embarking on a winning streak of 11
matches to reach a career-high No.
23.
However, he was no match for Ilija,
who took the opening set with two
breaks of serve before coming back
from 4-2 down in the second to reel
off four consecutive games and book
his place in the third round.
He will now meet either No. 10 seed
Frederic de Fays of Belgium for a
place in the quarterfinals.
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