Defending champ Dzumhur advances to St. Petersburg 2nd round
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) Defending champion Damir Dzumhur advanced to the second round of the St. Petersburg Open after beating Austrian qualifier Lucas Miedler 7-5, 6-3 on Tuesday.
Dzumhur bounced back from 3-0 down in the opening set by winning 10 of the following 12 games.
The sixth-seeded Bosnian will face either Argentine player Guido Pella or Belarusian qualifier Ilya Ivashka. Stan Wawrinka is a possible quarterfinal opponent.
Last year, Dzumhur became the first man to win both of the ATP Tour's Russian events in a single season after victory in St. Petersburg and at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow.
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