Mayer beats Nadal at Shanghai Masters

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SHANGHAI, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Florian Mayer defeated top-seeded Rafael Nadal in straight sets Thursday in third-round play of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament.
Mayer ousted Nadal 7-6 (7-5), 6-3. He missed out on a pair of break points when leading 5-4 in the first set but took the tiebreaker with an ace after a Nadal error put Mayer ahead.
Mayer had the match's first break to go up 4-3 in the second set and finished the win with another break. Nadal did win 75 percent of the points on serve but failed to generate a single break-point opportunity Thursday.
Second-seed Andy Murray, the defending Shanghai champion, got by Stanislas Wawrinka in a tight 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Murray won only four more points (84-80) over the course of the match but was able to hang on after building a 5-1 lead in the third set.
No. 3-seeded David Ferrer was also taken to three sets before claiming a 1-6, 7-5, 6-2 decision over Juan Carlos Ferrero.
But Feliciano Lopez upset sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych 6-4, 6-4; 10th-seeded Andy Roddick ousted seventh-seeded Nicolas Almagro in straight sets; and Matthew Ebden eliminated No. 8-seeded Gilles Simon 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (10-8).
No. 12th-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov rebounded for a 5-7, 6-1, 6-0 win over Bernard Tomic, and Kei Nishikori beat Santiago Giraldo 7-6 (8-6), 4-6, 6-3 in a match that involved a pair of unseeded players.

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