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Portugal’s Joao Sousa moved past Croatian wild card Toni Androic on Tuesday at the Croatian Open Umag, saving eight of nine break points and breaking on six of eight occasions to deny the world No. 363 his first career tour-level win.

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It was a good day all around for the 26-year-old Sousa, but it was particularly good on deuce in the sixth game of the first set when the world No. 51 hauled off and sailed this sublime ‘tweener lob high over the head of Androic for a clean winner. Even the Croatian crowd had to give it up with a hearty round of applause for Sousa.

In other action on Tuesday at Umag, sixth-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber took out Santiago Giraldo, 6-3, 6-2, while Austrian qualifier Bastian Trinker upset Mikhail Youzhny, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. Youzhny, now down to 90 in the world, dropped to 6-16 on the season with the loss.

Damir Dzumhur, Paolo Lorenzi and Andreas Haider-Maurer were also winners on Tuesday in Umag.

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