Ancic ends Dodig run

Originally published on: 26/02/10 12:17

The seventh seed claimed a comfortable 6-1 6-3 success to book his place in the last four and deprive his opponent of another scalp.

Croatian Dodig had beaten top seed Igor Andreev in the first round and then saw off Ernests Gulbis in the second.

Second seed Marin Cilic also advanced after he battled past Antonic Veic 6-2 7-6 (8/6).

The other two players through to the semi-finals are Jan Hernych, who was 5-4 up in the first set of his match against Mischa Zverev when his opponent retired, and Viktor Troicki.

The Serbian cruised past Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-3 6-2.

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