Davydenko triumphantly started at Masters Cup

Nikolai Davydenko triumphantly started at the final tennis tournament Masters Cup, which is held this week in Shanghai.

On Tuesday, a Russian, speaking in the Golden Group, in the match of the first round with a score of 6: 4, 6: 2, forced to surrender the American Andre Agassi, spending only 1 hour and 15 minutes on the implementation of this task. Davydenko completely outplayed Agassi, who spent his first match since the defeat from Roger Federer in the US Open finals two months ago.

For Davydenko, who first performs at Masters Cup, the victory over the eminent American also became the first in his career.

In addition to Davydenko and Agassi, the Argentines Gaston Gaudio and Mariano Puerta are later in the "golden" group of competitions. The latter on Monday replaced the Spaniard Rafael Nadal in Shanghai. In the starting match, Gaudio outplayed his compatriot and, together with Davydenko, headed the group.

In the "red" group a day earlier, Ivan Lyubichich from Croatia outplayed the Argentinean Giyermo Koria, and the Swiss Federer defeated another representative of Argentina - David Nalbandan.

Later it became known that after the defeat from Davydenko, 35-year-old Agassi withdrew from the final tournament of the Association of Professional tennis players in Shanghai due to foot injury. Earlier, Russian Marat Safin, Australian Leiton Hughitt and American Andy Roddick refused to participate in the final competition of the year, in addition to Nadal.