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Somdev Dewarman defeated Marian Cilic in straight sets and avenged the defeat he suffered at the Chennai earlier this year. He beat the Croatian 7-4, 6-4 to reach the third round on the $ 1.4 million Legg Mason Tennis Classic. Cilic ranked 15th on the ATP ranking is the highest ranked player that Somdev has defeated in his career. This will certainly improve Somdev’s ranking.

Somdev took 1 hour and 42 minutes to defeat the Croatian. Somdev has had some excellent victories this year including the one on his way to his first ATP final with wins over much better ranked player players like Carlos Moya and Ivo Karlovic.

In a post match interview Somdev said that it’s was one of his biggest career victories and also called Cilic a great player. He also said that Cilic was already in the Top 15 of the ATP ranking and is soon going to be in the Top 10.

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