Djokovic lands in Belgrade quarters

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05/06/2009 - Belgrade, Serbia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Belgrade native Novak Djokovic highlighted Wednesday's winners at the inaugural clay-court Serbia Open.

The top-seeded Djokovic, last week's Italian Masters runner-up to clay-court superman Rafael Nadal, snuck past fellow Serb Janko Tipsarevic 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 in a second-round bout on Day 3 here.

The 21-year-old Djokovic's quarterfinal opponent on Friday will be another fellow countryman, fifth-seeded Viktor Troicki.

In other second-round action, Polish lucky-loser Lukasz Kubot was leading third-seeded Igor Andreev 3-2 in the first set when the Russian retired due to a rib injury, while Troicki handled Spaniard Marcel Granollers 6-3, 6-4 and Belgian Kristof Vliegen upended eighth-seeded countryman Christophe Rochus 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Day 3. Vliegen and Kubot will face-off in the round of eight.

A trio of players posted first-round wins on Wednesday, as Argentine Leonardo Mayer mauled American Wayne Odesnik 6-3, 6-2, Argentine Brian Dabul doused Chilean Nicolas Massu 6-2, 6-1 and Italian qualifier Flavio Cipolla won a suspended match from Tuesday by besting Cypriot wild card Marcos Baghdatis 1-6, 6-3, 6-1.

This week's titlist will pocket $100,000.

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