Fish rolls in Toronto opener

4:59 PM, Aug 7, 2012   |    comments
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Last year's runner-up Mardy Fish was an easy second-round winner Tuesday at the Rogers Cup, the sixth of nine ATP Masters tournaments this year.

The 11th-seeded Fish cruised past Aussie lucky-loser Matthew Ebden 6-2, 6-0 on the hardcourts at Rexall Centre.

The American Fish lost to Serbian star Novak Djokovic in last year's finale in Montreal, as this event shifts between Montreal and Toronto each year.

Recent Los Angeles titlist Sam Querrey drubbed struggling Austrian Jurgen Melzer 6-3, 6-2, while Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin dismissed Canadian Frank Dancevic 6-3, 7-5 in opening-round action on Day 2.

In some other first-round play, Czech Radek Stepanek defeated last week's Washington, D.C. champion Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine 6-3, 6-1, Spaniard Marcel Granollers overcame Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, and Russian Mikhail Youzhny handled South African Kevin Anderson 6-1, 7-6 (7-3).

This week's top seed is the reigning champion and two-time titlist Djokovic. The field also features Olympic gold medalist and Wimbledon runner-up Andy Murray and London Games bronze medalist and former U.S. Open champ Juan Martin del Potro. Murray, like Djokovic, has captured this Canadian Masters event twice. Del Potro was the 2009 runner-up to Murray in Montreal.

The newest Rogers Cup champ will collect $522,550.

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