TORONTO -- Peter Polansky of Thornhill, Ont., could not maintain a fast start in his first-round match of the Rogers Cup as Matthew Ebden of Australia pulled out a 0-6, 6-4, 6-3 win on Monday.
Ebden will play Mardy Fish in the next round of the tournament.
The 24-year-old Polansky, a wild-card entry into the tournament, needed only 19 minutes to win the first set with little opposition from Ebden but his fortunes changed dramatically as he had trouble holding service.
The tempo of the match changed in the second set as Ebden, also 24, took the first three games after an adjustment in tactics, playing back more, creating more long rallies, which were absent from the first set.
Both players had difficulty holding service in the second set but it cost Polansky more. Ebden again broke his serve to force the third set.
Ebden took a 2-0 lead in the final set before Polansky battled back to even it at 2-2.
Ebden surged ahead 5-2 before Polansky got back to 5-3 and had double-break point before Ebden rallied to put the match away.
Polansky came into Rogers Cup at his career-high ranking of No. 155 in the world.
The last time Polansky played in Toronto was in 2010 and he advanced into the second round with a victory over world No. 15 Juergen Melzer.
Polansky qualified for the 2010 U.S. Open and won his first-round match but he struggled after that and had to drop to Futures events and rebuilt his confidence with some victories.
Rising Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic will face Viktor Troicki of Serbia in his first match at the Rogers Cup.
Troicki advanced Monday with a 6-4, 7-6 win over Alex Bogomolov Jr. of Russia.
Raonic had a bye in the first round.
In another first-round match, Jeremy Chardy of France defeated American Donald Young 3-6, 7-6, 6-0.
Chardy will take on No. 3 seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France, who defeated Raonic last week in the longest three-set match in Olympic history.
In doubles, Fabio Fognini of Italy and Juan Monaco of Argentina defeated the British pair of Ross Hutchins and Jonathan Marray 7-6, 6-3.
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