MILAN: Morocco’s Younes El Aynaoui, who lost an epic five-hour, five-set Australian Open quarter-final last week, surrendered his Milan indoor hopes in tamer fashion here on Wednesday when he was knocked out of the 380,000 euro event in the second round by Italian veteran Andrea Gaudenzi.
The third-seeded El Aynaoui, who also knocked top seed and world number one Lleyton Hewitt out of the opening Grand Slam event of the season in Melbourne before losing that epic last eight clash to Andy Roddick, went down in straight sets 7-5, 6-3.
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