Also onto the third round is No. 4 seed American Taylor Dent, who defeated Russian Dmitry Tursunov 6-3, 7-6(3) in 1 hour, 31 minutes. Tursunov took an early 3-1 lead, but let his lead slide after three double faults in the sixth game. Dent fought off three break points late in the set, while picking up his second break in the eighth game to claim the set. The players exchanged breaks in the first eight games of the second set. Dent then gave himself a chance to serve for the match with a break in the 11th game, but Tursunov battled once again to get the break back and force the tie-break, which Dent won. Dent won 60% of his service points while Tursunov won 54%.
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Dent: "I'm playing great coming in. I feel like I'm hitting the ball well. I need to just keep focused. I really want to repeat my performance from last year, or maybe go a step further."