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Participants are attracted to golf events because they usually get to play on a course that they would be unable to play on during their regular lives. They get food and drink, often get goody bags, and might just get to hang around a smart or famous crowd of people.
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TORONTO, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The inclement weather in Toronto tested the patience of tennis fans and players on Monday after the first round of the ATP Rogers Cup was held up from multiple rain delays.
Matches were suspended three separate times from the rain, but the action resumed uninterrupted in the evening as the skies cleared just in time for 13 seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Croatian Ivan Dodig in the singles matches, and Novak Djokovic and Stanislas Wawrinka in the doubles Giorgio Chiellini Juventus Jersey , to advance into the second round of the tournament.
Frenchman Tsonga dominated compatriot Edouard Roger-Vasselin in the second half of the match with a 7-6 (7-3) , 6-1 win. Despite Tsonga's numerous unforced errors, it was a close first set with the two battling it out for 53 minutes before Tsonga finally took the set. But Tsonga took over the second set as he gained momentum and won the match in an hour and 15 minutes.
"I was a little bit tight at the beginning, and he was pretty aggressive," Tsonga said after the match. "And after winning the first set, I felt a little bit more free. Then I played better tennis."
This now marks the 11th time the two-time Rogers Cup semi- finalist has faced Roger-Vasselin. Tsonga explained that the long break after his last match at Wimbledon threw him off his game.
"It's always difficult when you didn't play for a few weeks Gianluigi Buffon Juventus Jersey , but it was my choice and I practiced a lot during those weeks," he said. "When you come on the court for the first time again, you want to be good. You want to see if your practice was good or not. "
Tsonga will meet another countryman, Jeremy Chardy, world No. 36, in the next round.
In another court Federico Bernardeschi Juventus Jersey , world No. 10 John Isner was upset by Dodig, 6- 4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3. It was a hard-fought battle on both ends.
Isner, who blamed his loss to Steve Johnson at the Citi Open on his court assignment just last week, fought hard to win a second- set tie break to stay in the game Fabrizio Caligara Juventus Jersey , but Dodig picked up the pace and ended Isner's run at Rogers Cup in the first round.