| Saturday, 28 June 2008 Written by Michael Burke Forget Euro 2008. In Wimbledon, there's 10 nations still with representatives in the men's singles. Through to the last 16 are three Spaniards, two Frenchmen, two men from Switzerland, two Russians, two Croats, an Australian, a Serb, a Cypriot, a German and, of course, one Briton. Janko Tipsarevic continues to successfully fill the huge Serbian void left in the men’s singles draw by the shock early departure of Novak Djokovic, the number three seed, and he went a long way in restoring some pride back to Serbian tennis defeating the powerful 25th seed. Today he put on his Oakley sunglasses and accepted the role inherited from Djokovic of being the number one Serbian man at Wimbledon, taking just three sets to beat Dmitry Tursunov of Russia 7-6 (7-1), 7-6 (7-3), 6-3. The tight match was a tale of two tie-breaks, both completely dominated by Tipsarevic, who had the superior craft and concentration to deal with the Russians heavy artillery at the right moments in the game. In the fourth round, he will play Rainer Schuettler of Germany, also through today in straight sets. In the first of two Germany versus Spain clashes (the other was Rafael Nadal's win over Nicolas Kiefer), he beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-2, 6-3, 6-4. The greater experience of the 32-year-old German was the key to winning, having played 40 more matches on grass than the Spaniard. Schuettler served well throughout the match and backed up his service games by reading the Spaniard's serve to perfection. Congratulations are also due to another veteran. Frenchman Arnaud Clement equals his best ever Wimbledon performance by reaching the fourth round, for the third time, by defeating Jurgen Melzer of Austria 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. After a slow start, dropping the opening set, Clement patched up his game, and went from strength to strength, hitting fewer unforced errors then Melzer and converting the crucial break points to serve out the second, third and fourth sets. Later in the day, compatriot Paul Henri Mathieu went into his third round match tie with a 3-1 head-to-head advantage over his 19-year-old Croatian opponent Marin Cilic. Mathieu made a promising start, seizing the opening set in the tie-break, only to allow Cilic - who was serving incredibly well - back into the match by dropping the second set and third set. The final set was a real tussle which went to another tie-break but Cilic made the breakthrough to complete a 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (8-6) victory.
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