Madrid Open: Nick Kyrgios sends Roger Federer crashing in Round 2

MadridAustralia young gun Nick Kyrgios knocked top seed Roger Federer out of the Madrid Open on Wednesday with a stunning 67 27 76 75 76 1412 victoryKyrgios who beat Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon last year sent down 22 aces to Federers 15 and next faces John Isner of the United States Ive been playing well recently on the clay so I knew I had a good chance to go out there and do well I stuck to my game and served well and I got the win said Kyrgios who was runnerup on clay at Estoril last weekendRoger Federer Pic AFPI guess thats why you play the game to play on these big courts against these big players Hes the greatest of alltime no doubt Top seed Federer saved five match points in the deciding tiebreaker while having two of his own annulled by the bighitting Australian youngster ranked 35th I couldnt return his first serve I had a horrible performance on return of serve said Federer That made life difficult for me Im disappointed with how I played on returns and that cost me the matchMeanwhile second seeded Andy Murray went through beating Germanys Philipp Kohlschreiber 64 36 60 in a second round tie which finished at just after 3am Thursday Murray who had defeated Kohlschreiber in the raindelayed Munich final on Monday in another threesetter to claim his first claycourt title next faces Spains Marcel GranollersNadal returned to his claycourt comfort zone starting his campaign for a fifth Madrid Open title with a 64 63 defeat of Steve Johnson The victory in 74 minutes lifted Nadals clay record over Americans to a perfect 100 while the third seed improved to 123 on the surface this season The ninetime French Open champion has four Madrid titles and has played in six finals at his showcase home event He is aiming to extend his streak of winning at least one European ATP clay title leading into Roland Garros to 11 straight yearsNadal goes on to face Italys Simone Bolelli for a quarterfinal spot I think I played a solid match I played the way I needed to to win that match I know after a loss like Barcelona third round things are not easy when youre playing the next match said Nadal Serena 230 in 2015 Womens top seed Serena Williams and defending champion Maria Sharapova survived marathon threesetters to reach the quarterfinals Williams saved three match points and needed two and threequarter hours to take her undefeated record this season to 230 making the most of a late serving collapse from former number one Victoria AzarenkaI could have won she could have won I ended up winning and I dont know how said Williams after her 76 75 36 76 71 win I feel like it was intense Williams next faces Carla Suarez Navarro after the Spanish 10th seed beat Serbian seventh seed Ana Ivanovic 75 16 64 Third seed Sharapova went two and a half hours before seeing off Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia 62 46 75Sharapova started 2015 by winning 17 of her first 18 matches but came to Madrid having lost three in a row She has now won 57 of her last 62 matches on clay as she waits to play fifth seed Caroline Wozniacki in the quarters Wozniacki advanced over Polands Agnieszka Radwanska 63 62Twotime Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova the fourth seed advanced with ease over Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 61 64 Romanian Irina Begu beat Barbora Strycova 64 64 to next take on KvitovaNadal was joined in the mens third round by Japanese fourth seed Kei Nishikori who saw off Belgiums David Goffin 62 46 64 Nishikori will face Spains Roberto Bautista Agut for a quarterfinal spot Sixth seed Tomas Berdych accounted for weekend Estoril winner Richard Gasquet 76 73 75 Spanish seventh seed David Ferrer beat Albert RamosVinolas 64 60 and Madrids Fernando Verdasco knocked out US Open champion Marin Cilic 67 57 76 75 63Bulgarian tenth seed Grigor Dimitrov came back to beat Italian Fabio Fognini 36 62 75 while Leonardo Mayer beat 11th seed Feliciano Lopez 76 73 76 86 Number 12 Frenchman JoWilfried Tsonga beat American Jack Sock 63 16 76 74 Isner the 16th seed fired 23 aces to defeat Brazils Thomaz Bellucci 76 75 67 1113 61