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TOKYO - Top-seeded Juan Martin del Potro moved into the second round of the Japan Open with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus on Tuesday. MLB Jerseys Black Friday Deals . Playing under the roof at Ariake Colosseum because of rain, del Potro came back from a sluggish first set to secure the win in just over two hours. "The match came to me in the end," del Potro said. "I was focusing on breaking his serve and finally did it. He was hitting a lot of aces (17)." His opponent in the second round will be Argentine compatriot Carlos Berlocq. Defending champion Kei Nishikori came back from a set down to beat unseeded Jurgen Melzer of Austria 6-7 (4), 7-5, 6-2. Nishikori was just two points from defeat while trailing 5-2 in the second set, but reeled off five straight games to even the sets before cruising to victory in the final set. Del Potro, ranked seventh in the world, prevailed with solid play from the baseline and capitalized on some crucial mistakes by Baghdatis. Baghdatis, ranked 49th, broke serve in the opening game of the match and held throughout to take the first set. The Cypriot mixed it up, frequently coming to the net and using drop shots to try and keep del Potro off balance. The players exchanged breaks early in the second set, then stayed on serve until the final game, when del Potro broke with a volley to level the sets. The crucial point in the match came in the eighth game of the final set, when del Potro converted on his fourth break point chance to go up 5-3 after Baghdatis hit a return into the net. "It was important for me to win this kind of match," del Potro said. "Playing him in the first round is probably the worst person to face. He is unseeded here and dangerous. He plays well on the hard-courts." Del Potro was a late addition to the tournament after Andy Murray, the 2011 champion, pulled out due to a back injury. Del Potro is seeking his third title of the season here, following victories in Rotterdam and Washington. In other first-round action, seventh-seed Kevin Anderson of South Africa lost to Lukas Lacko of Slovakia 6-4, 7-6 (2), and unseeded Horacio Zeballos of Argentina beat qualifier Ryan Harrison of the United States 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. Third-seeded Milos Raonic of Canada, who lost to Nishikori in the final last year, will play his first-round match against Go Soeda on Wednesday. Jerseys Cyber Monday .C. -- Even without captain Ryan Callahan, the New York Rangers kept rolling along. Cheap NBA Jerseys Black Friday . Los Angeles looks to rebound this evening and avoid a season series sweep at the hands of the hosting Colorado Avalanche. Watch the game live on TSN2 and TSN Mobile TV at 9:30pm et/6:30pm pt. http://www.cheapchinajerseynfl.us.com/Women-Jersey...sey-Gl- 87/ . The 5-foot-9 McCain announced the deal on Twitter late Tuesday and thanked his agent, David Canter. McCain was a sixth-round draft pick by the Texans in 2009. Jerseys Black Friday .C. -- Turner Elson put up a lot of points in junior, but it was his first professional goal that ignited the Abbotsford Heat Friday night. NHL Jerseys Black Friday . Brian Langtry led the way with four goals and a pair of assists as the Colorado Mammoth grabbed the definitive edge in a tight National Lacrosse League playoff race with a 13-6 victory over the Edmonton Rush on Saturday.RED DEER, Alta. -- Heather Nedohin knows its coming. Its just a matter of when. The Alberta skip was hoarse by the second day of the Canadian womens curling championship. She expected to be croaking out sweeping calls soon. A skips voice takes a beating over the course of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Its not just 20 ends or more a day of calling sweepers on and off the stones that strains their voice boxes. They use tone and volume to communicate the urgency of the situation. Their vocal chords compete with skips yelling on other ice sheets and also with bursts of applause and ringing bells from spectators. The skips often sound raspy in post-game interviews. Some larynges hold up better than others. Nedohins larynx does not. "Because Im ridiculous when I scream and I do it too much," she confesses. "I overdo it." Curling lore includes instances of skips trying to work around their voices giving out. When Russ Howard lost his voice at the 1989 Brier, he tried using radio communication devices with his teammates, but the Canadian Curling Association wouldnt allow it. Ontario skip Bryan Cochrane was given permission by the CCA to use a whistle at the 2003 Brier because he had a pre-existing vocal chord disorder. Skips often combine hand signals with verbal instruction, and those signals are a backup if their voice quits. "We play in a lot of curling rinks throughout the cashspiel season and they are loud and echo and are noisy, so we do have a lot of hand signals that we use," B.C.s Kelly Scott said. "Even in an arena, you cant shout over the cheering and applauding at times. "We do default back to some hand signals. The sweepers always know to look up and keep checking." How the skips feel about whats happening on the ice is projected to both their teammates and the spectators via their voices. Nedohin wears her emotions on her sleeve and in her voice. Her shouts are the loudest and highest on the musical scale with Marie-France Larouche of Quebec a close second. "All week, I scream and sometimes its a little bit higher or a little bit lower," Larouche says. NFL Jerseys Black Friday. "Its very hard. At the end of the week sometimes, I miss my voice." Manitoba skip Jennifer Jones says her voice doesnt give out at a provincial or national championship unless she has a cold. Her yell is lower in timbre and more of a loud growl. "I try not to be high-pitched," she explained. "I try to be low so its different from everybody else, so we dont have to yell as loud. Its just a different tone." Heather Strong isnt a bellower, but the Newfoundland and Labrador skip says her voice cracks in the arid Alberta air. But she believes increasing volume increases her sweepers efforts. "The louder you yell, arguably, the harder people sweep, or you like to think so," Strong said. "If Im yelling, the louder I get, the closer (the stone) is to crashing on the guards." Amber Holland, skip of the defending champions, is one of the quietest in the field. "Im not one of those skips that screams a lot," Holland says. "The only time I do when its a really tense moment, key shot, tight to the guard, that kind of stuff, thats when I probably yell the most. I just dont want to hear myself yell." The curlers try to preserve their voices by drinking water, chewing gum and sucking on throat lozenges. Nedohin has a humidifier in her hotel room, although the deterioration of her voice seems inevitable. "I dont lose it enough that its not there," she said. "There seems to be a high pitch that can come out a squeak. Itll always be there. It might not be on the conversational level." Communication while the stone is in play is a crucial component of the curling. "I have said before that I think me not having a voice towards the latter end of the week hurts the team," Nedohin admitted. "I do try to preserve it, but emotions are high. I try to do more hand signals, but I am a girl with a voice." ' ' '
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