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Nadal survives Dimitrov scare as Wawrinka's Basel woes continue

Rafael Nadal squeezed past Grigor Dimitrov in the Swiss Indoors Basle. "This was another very tough match, I had to fight", said Nadal.

epa04998719 Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov returns a ball to Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky during their first round match at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, 26 October 2015.

"But I began improving in the second set and got a bit lucky when I converted my break points (in the sixth game at 3-3)".

Third-seeded Nadal struggled past Lukas Rosol on Monday, and had his serve broken in each set by Dimitrov before lifting his career record to 7-0 against the 28th-ranked Bulgarian. "After that, things started going my way". Roger Federer, who is looking for his seventh Basel title, will face Philipp Kohlschreiber in the second round of the tournament after cruising past Mikhail Kukushkin 6-1 6-2. Wawrinka was disappointed to have let it slip away. From that moment on Ivo played much better, on both first and second serve, with a lot of cheap points only by serve, but the problem was to break back. He serves unbelievable and you don t get many chances.

Fourth seed Kevin Anderson sailed through to the second round of the ATP 500 Basel with a convincing 6-3 6-2 win over Borna Coric.

Cilic goes on to face Russia's Teymuraz Gabashvili in the second round after he defeated Leonardo Mayer of Argentina 7-5 4-6 6-4. In the second round, 2014 finalist David Goffin made the quarter-finals with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Adrian Mannarino.

Jack Sock won an all-American first-round match against Denis Kudla, 6-4, 6-2, to set up another in the next round.

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