Last year's runner-up Juan Carlos Ferrero
was a hard-fought second-round winner Wednesday at the clay-court Croatia
Open.
The fourth-seeded former world No. 1 Ferrero clawed his way past Uruguay's
Pablo Cuevas 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in 2 hours, 9 minutes at ITC Stella Maris. The
Spanish Ferrero, a former French Open champ, gave way to Russian star Nikolay
Davydenko in last year's Umag finale.
Ferrero's quarterfinal opponent on Friday will be rising Ukrainian Alexandr
Dolgopolov.
In other second-round action, a sixth-seeded Dolgopolov handled Croatian wild
card Franco Skugor 7-6 (7-1), 6-3 and eighth-seeded Argentine veteran Juan
Ignacio Chela fought off game Italian qualifier Simone Bolelli 7-6 (7-5), 6-7
(4-7), 6-1 in 2 hours, 42 minutes.
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