DUBAI: Novak Djokovic earned his 700th career match win at the expense of Tunisian wild card Malek Jaziri 6-1, 6-2 at the Dubai Championships on Wednesday.

Djokovic, who joined the tour a decade ago, has a 700-146 career match record.

He’s one of three active players to reach 700 wins, the others being Roger Federer with 1,067, and Rafael Nadal on 775.

“Sounds like I played many matches in my career,” a smiling Djokovic told the crowd.

Results:

Men’s singles:

Second round: 1-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) bt Malek Jaziri (Tunisia) 6-1, 6-2; 2-Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland) bt Franko Skugor (Croatia) 7-5, 6-1; 3-Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) bt Thomas Fabbiano (Italy) 6-2, 6-2; 4-Roberto Bautista Agut (Spain) bt Chung Hyeon (South Korea) 6-0, 6-1; 6-Feliciano Lopez (Spain) bt Lukas Rosol (Czech Republic) 6-3, 7-6 (7); 8-hilipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) bt Borna Coric (Croatia) 6-2, 7-6 (5); Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) bt Vasek Pospisil (Canada) 6-4, 6-2; Nick Kyrgios (Australia) bt Mikhail Kukushkin (Kazakhstan) 6-3, 6-2.

Radwanska through to next round

DOHA: The remaining top seed at the Qatar Open, Agnieszka Radwanska, avoided the fate of many of the other top players in Doha and eased through to the final eight on Wednesday.

The number three seed won in straight sets 7-5, 6-1, against Romania’s Monica Niculescu, to restore some order to a tournament where many of the top players have crashed out in the opening rounds.

Results (x denotes seeding):

Third round: Zheng Saisai (CHN) bt Euginie Bouchard (CAN) 7-6 (7/1), 6-1; Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) bt Petra Kvitova (CZE x5) 5-7, 6-2, 6-1; Garbine Muguruza (ESP x4) bt Timea Babos (HUN) 6-2, 7-5; Andrea Petkovic (GER) bt Coco Vandeweghe (USA) 6-3, 6-4; Roberta Vinci (ITA x9) bt Cagla Buyukakcay (TUR) 7-5, 6-1; Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x3) bt Monica Niculescu (ROM) 7-5, 6-1; Carla Suarez (ESP x8) bt Timea Bacsinszky (SUI x11) 6-2, 6-2; Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x13) 7-5, 5-7, 6-3.

Published in Dawn, February 26th, 2016