Wimbledon: Federer-slayer Stakhovsky out; Ferrer wins Spanish battle

Being the man that toppled seven-times Wimbledon champion Roger Federer counted for nothing as Ukraine’s Sergiy Stakhovsky lost his next match to Austrian veteran Jurgen Melzer on Friday. Unseeded Stakhovsky, desperate to avoid the one-hit wonder tag, showed none of the sharpness that sent Federer spinning out in the second round in one of Wimbledon’s greatest shocks, losing 6-2 2-6 7-5 6-3. It was a workmanlike performance from the dogged Melzer and 116th-ranked Stakhovsky, clearly drained by the greatest victory of his career, could never get in an effective blow against the 37th ranked Austrian. [caption id=“attachment_914637” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] David Ferrer came out on top in an all-Spanish second round match at Wimbledon. Getty Images[/caption] On Wednesday Stakhovsky had played like a man possessed to end Federer’s run of reaching 36 consecutive quarter-finals in grand slam play but he never reached those heights again on a dismal and cloudy day. FERRER WINS CLASSIC David Ferrer came out on top in an all-Spanish second round match at Wimbledon, getting the better of a baseline battle to beat Roberto Bautista Agut 6-3 3-6 7-6(4) 7-5 on Friday. When fourth seed Ferrer claimed the first set after 43 minutes, there was no hint that the 60th-ranked Bautista Agut could upset the country’s pecking order and reach the third round of a grand slam for the first time. But his clever shot-making drew a string of unforced errors from this year’s French Open finalist Ferrer in the second set and he tenaciously dug-in to take the third set to a tiebreak. However, Ferrer kept his nerve to regain the lead, broke in the 11th game of the fourth set and closed it out to set up a third-round match against Ukraine’s Alexandr Dolgopolov. Reuters