World Sport News

The top seeded Marin Cilic failed in his opening match at the 250cc tournament in Istanbul. But he shouldn’t be too sad.

Defending champion Cilic had a walk-through in round one, in round two he lost to Malek Jaziri from Tunisia on Thursday afternoon with 4:6, 2.6. The Croatian had to accept five service losses. Earlier, the number two of the tournament, Damir Dzumhur, had failed 2:6, 6:0, 2:6 due to Thomas Fabbiano.

At least for Cilic, the defeat shouldn’t be that bad. He had married his long-time friend Kristina Milkovic on Saturday. They met in 2008 in a Davis Cup match where Milkovic worked as a hostess.

On Thursday morning Cilic had posted a photo of the day of their wedding and wrote about the “happiest day of my life”.

The single tableau from Istanbul