Roddick Beats Frustration to Win in Shanghai

Andy Roddick refocused after losing his cool Tuesday to win a tight battle against Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov 7-6 (7/3), 7-5 and advance to the third round of the Shanghai Masters.

The American 10th seed won a first set tie-break and sealed victory after clinching a topsy-turvy second set that contained five breaks of serve.

After Dimitrov broke Roddick in the ninth game of the second set to lead 5-4, the American smashed his bag repeatedly in frustration but immediately broke back to level at 5-5.

Speaking about the incident, Roddick said: "I don't know that I made a first serve that game, you know, so that was frustrating for me. I mean I felt like I was returning pretty well and hitting my forehand pretty well.

"Then all of a sudden I'm not putting a first serve in the court. So I was kind of pissed. I felt like I was getting it backwards a little bit.

"The guy doubles three times and lets you back in, then you kind of donate it right back, that's not normally a recipe to win a match."

But the American said: "There's no such thing as a bad win. I'll keep going in this tournament hopefully."

Swiss 13th seed Stanislas Wawrinka joined Roddick in the third round after a 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/2), 6-2 victory over America's Donald Young and France's Gilles Simon, seeded eighth, eased past Spain's Albert Montanes 6-1, 6-1.

Earlier, Germany's Florian Mayer, the 15th seed, beat former world number three David Nalbandian 6-3, 6-4 to reach the third round and seventh seed Nicolas Almagro defeated Spanish compatriot Tommy Robredo 7-5, 6-3.

In first round clashes, Serbian ninth seed Janko Tipsarevic crashed out to Feliciano Lopez of Spain 6-7 (2/7), 6-7 (3/7), dealing a heavy blow to his hopes of reaching the ATP World Tour Finals.

Tipsarevic won his first ATP title earlier this month at the Malaysian Open but lost in the first round of last week's Japan Open.

Tipsarevic's Serbian compatriot Viktor Troicki, seeded 11, also lost, beaten in straight sets by America's Ryan Harrison.

Austrian 14th seed Jurgen Melzer, who defeated Rafael Nadal to reach the quarter-finals in Shanghai last year, beat Croatia's Ivan Ljubicic and Alexandr Dolgopolov, seeded 12, beat Lukasz Kubot of Poland.

Japan’s Kei Nishikori overcame a disastrous start against Robin Haase to defeat the Dutchman 0-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7/5).