Berdych Closes In On Milestone

Tomas Berdych moved to within one match win of 600 victories on Monday at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia. Berdych, the No. 12 seed and 2013 semi-finalist, triumphed 7-6(7), 6-4 over Mischa Zverev in one hour and 49 minutes. The Czech could not convert four set points on Zverev’s serve when leading 5-4, and he then saved two set points at 4/6 in the tie-break.

Berdych, who has the same number of career victories (599) as his coach Goran Ivanisevic, goes on to meet Robin Haase or qualifier Carlos Berlocq in the second round. Should Berdych win he would become the 25th player in ATP World Tour history to hit the 600 match wins milestone.

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