The Philippine Star

Huey-inglot moves to third round

- – Joey Villar

il- m Treat onrad Huey and reat Britain’s Dominic Inglot overpowere­d ech epublic’s ukas Dlouhy and Italy’s Daniele Bracciali, 6-3, 6-3, to advance to the third round of the pen at the rthur she tadium in ew ork.

The emphatic victory, which lasted only 53 minutes, sent Huey-Inglot duo, seeded 16th, to the ne t round versus the winner of the secondroun­d match between the third-seeded panish tandem of arc ope and arcel ranollers and ustralians hris uccione and Bernard Tomic.

Huey, the spearhead of the country’s Davis up team set to take on ew ealand at the lantation Bay in apu apu ity, ebu this month, and Inglot survived the stubborn ustrian duo of ulian nowle and urgen el er, 6-2, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5), in the opening round.

Huey, who turned 28 last ug. 28, is seeking to do good in this annual rand lam event to earn enough points to improve his current world rankings of o. 32. He made it to as high as o. 24 last une. Huey also won his mi ed doubles match after he and merican aquel ops- ones bucked a first set loss to eke out a pulsating 2-6, 6-4, 10-6 triumph over the merican tandem of Donald oung and ictoria Duval.

Huey and ops- ones will ne t clash with eighth pick arcelo elo of Bra il and ie el Huber of the , who barged into the second round with a 4-6, 7-6 (10), 10-4 squeaker of a win over omania’s Horia Tecau and India’s ania ir a.

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