Federer stunned, Nadal moves on at Rogers Cup

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07/24/2008 - Toronto, ON (Tennis Betting) - Top-ranked Roger Federer suffered a shocking loss in the second round Wednesday at the $2,615,000 Rogers Masters in Toronto.

Playing his first match since dropping an epic Wimbledon final in five sets to Rafael Nadal, Federer was upset 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 by Frenchman Gilles Simon, last week's Indianapolis champion.

Meanwhile, the second-seeded Nadal ousted American qualifier Jesse Levine, 6-4, 6-2, to move into the third round.

Russian Marat Safin defeated American Sam Querrey 6-3, 6-3 in his rain-delayed first-round match before falling to ninth-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 6-3, 6-4.

Nikolay Davydenko of Russia, the fourth seed, knocked off German Tommy Haas 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) and fifth-seeded Spaniard David Ferrer dispatched American Robby Ginepri 6-4, 6-4.

There were a couple of other second-round upsets: Croat Marin Cilic upended 12th-seeded Tommy Robredo of Spain 6-3, 6-4; Sweden's Robin Soderling outlasted 13th-seeded Fernando Verdasco of Spain 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-4; Argentina's Jose Acasuso slipped past 14th-seeded Fernando Gonzalez of Chile 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; German Nicolas Kiefer beat 15th-seeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny 7-6 (7-4), 7-5 and Russian Igor Andreev, who was last week's Croatia Open runner-up, topped Czech Tomas Berdych, the 16th seed, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

In other second-round action: seventh-seeded American James Blake rallied to down Swedish qualifier Jonas Bjorkman 1-6, 6-1, 6-2; eighth-seeded Andy Murray of Great Britain made quick work of Sweden's Thomas Johansson 6-4, 6-4; France's Richard Gasquet, the 10th seed, silenced Russia's Alexandre Kudryavtsev 7-5, 6-3 and Russian's Dmitry Tursunov eliminated Feliciano Lopez of Spain 6-3, 7-6 (8-6).

Rain delayed the start of play on Wednesday.

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Marlins could start season without No. 2 starter Johnson

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Josh Johnson won't be ready when the season starts April 2.

Grapefruit League action starts Wednesday, but Johnson, penciled in as the No. 2 starter, hasn't even thrown off a mound at full speed since September. He's experienced some soreness in his right forearm.

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''You guys know the math. If he's not on the hill then he becomes an opening day roster issue,'' manager Fredi Gonzalez said Saturday. ''We're borderline now.''

Johnson, who finished 12-7 with a 3.10 ERA in 2007, was supposed to throw on flat ground Saturday. That was canceled when he woke up with pain.

He played catch on Wednesday with no pain but felt discomfort in a throwing session on Thursday. He's expected to try again Sunday.

''Like we always said from the very beginning, we're going to take it easy on him,'' Gonzalez said. ''He didn't feel right, so we shut him down. We're going to take it back to step one and see where we're at.''

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Right-hander Sergio Mitre, who missed most of last season with arm and shoulder problems, also is behind.

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