Thursday, March 15, 2012

Top-seeded Cilic reaches final of Zagreb Indoors

Defending champion Marin Cilic of Croatia beat third-seeded Juergen Melzer of Austria 7-6 (5), 6-4, to reach the finals of the Zagreb Indoors tournament.

The top-seeded Croatian ousted Melzer in straight sets in one hour and 45 minutes on Saturday to raise his 2010 record to 14-1 and give himself a chance at a second title this year and a fifth of his career.

Cilic, 22, won in Chennai, India in January and reached the semifinals of the Australian Open last week to break into the top 10 in the world rankings for the first time this week.

For the first time this week, Cilic's serve was broken in the seventh game …