South Africa’s Kevin Anderson returns the ball with a forehand shot to Germany’s Tommy Haas during the ATP Stockholm Open tennis tournament in Stockholm yesterday. Anderson defeated Haas 6-7, 6-4, 6-4. (AFP

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Australian teenager Bernard Tomic tamed Estonian qualifier Jurgen Zopp at the Stockholm Open here yesterday to set up a quarter-final with French top seed Gael Monfils.
The 18-year-old, ranked 44th and youngest player in the ATP Top 50, beat Zopp 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 6-0 to become an opening opponent for Monfils, who had a first-round bye and is making his Stockholm debut.
The Frenchman will be testing a knee injury which forced him to miss last week’s Shanghai Masters, where Tomic earned a Top 10 win over American Mardy Fish.
A positive scan result in Paris allowed Monfils to return to the ATP this autumn after his fitness scare.
“It will be a tough task,” said Tomic, who turns 19 on Friday.
“It’s a first match for him and I’ve gotten a feeling for the court. But Gael’s a world-class player, it will be a good fight.”
Tomic won the opening set against number 145 Zopp in a tiebreaker, but had to run out the final set to love to earn the victory in just over one and three-quarters hours with 10 aces and 51 winners.
“It was really tough, it was my first time on the centre court here. To play a guy like that in the first round is tricky. I’m happy I won in the end.”