Miami Open: Cilic beats Pospisil to enter quarters

Miami March 26 (IANS) Croatian tennis player Marin Cilic qualified for the ATP Masters 1000 quarterfinals in Miami with his 7-5 and 7-6 (4) victory over Canada s Vasek Pospisil.

Pospisil No. 77 in the ATP rankings had the chance to break the World No.3 Croatian s service at the beginning of Sunday s match.

But he failed to take advantage of the two opportunities provided by Cilic who did benefit from a break in the the 12th game thus winning the first set reports EFE news agency.

In the second set the Canadian delivered a break and the Croat threw in another two ultimately resulting in a tie-break that Cilic won.

Pospisil had lost to the Croat in the first round of the Australia Open early this year with the latter in turn eliminating the World No. 1 Spain s Rafael Nadal and making it to the finals only to lose to Switzerland s Roger Federer.

But the Swiss player was eliminated in Miami on Saturday by Australia s Thanasi Kokkinakis.

Cilic is now slated to go up against the winner of the duel between US player John Isner and Russia s Mickail Youzhny in the quarter-finals.

--IANS
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