CARLOS MOYA WILL FACE SWISS ROGER FEDERER
The Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal reached without problems the semifinals of the match of Hamburg, fifth Masters Series of the season, after prevailing without too many problems to the Chilean Fernando González by a double 6-4.
The South American, twig of the manacorí in the quarters of the Opened one of Australia, could not take revancha from the final happened one of the TMS of Rome where he had yielded by a simple double 6-2 and today he did not trouble either to number two of the world, that follows with new firm step towards entorchado in earth beaten.
González could not with a Nadal solid, that always gave the sensation to be a point over the tennis of its rival, something more fighting than five days ago in the Itálico Forum.
The Balearic one broke in a moment, as he is habitual in him, and guessed right to encarrilar the party. It was in the third game and from that moment it did not offer any opportunity to the South American to recover of this ?break?.
Nadal closed the first sleeve by 6-4 and seemed to encarrilar second with a new early breakage, in the first serve of Fernando González, who nevertheless, this time yes knew to react to equal in the quarter (2-2).
Anyway, the Spanish did not get off center and he did not lower the rate. It broke to the following game by third occasion the serve of the finalist in Australia and strengthening his it reached victory 80 and ?semis? in Hamburg, a round where he hopes to him the winner of the shock between Nicholas I reddle and the Lleyton Australian Hewitt.
Moya will be moderate to Federer
Carlos Moya has prevailed in a duro and intense encounter to the Serb Novak Djokovic by 7-6 (4), 4-6 and 7-5 and has classified for the first time in the season for the semifinals of a Masters Series, the one of Hamburg (Germany), fifth TMS of the season, where it waits for the Swiss Roger to him Federer, first head of series, to which it has not won in any of the six occasions in which they have been moderate previously and that previously it had eliminated in three sleeves and with many difficulties David Ferrer, twelfth head of series.
The Balearic tennis player, at the moment in the thirty sixth position of the ranking, needed four points party to sentence the Serb. In addition, Moya, who had like better registry in a Masters Series the dieciseisavos of end that Wells reached in Indian and who had not surpassed the first round in the earth disputed ones - Rome and Montecarlo, does not gain a title from February of the 2006, when she conquered the one of Buenos Aires.
The Spanish player, with nineteen titles in his palmarés, already is even his better registry in Hamburg. He is in semifinals, just as in 1999, when Marcelo Ríos was eliminated by the Chilean. In addition revancha was taken from the only previous duel, the past year in Umag (the Croatia), and folded to the sixth player of the world-wide ranking in a marathon encounter that extended during two hours and 40 minutes.
After a first very even Seth, whom it had to dissolve in a ?favorable tie break? to the interests of ex- number one of the world, the reaction arrived from the Balkan. Thus, in the second Djokovic sleeve he began with ?break? in the first game that neutralized later Moyà little, although finally the Serb imposed his rest in the fifth game and forced the third Seth. There the best game arrived from ?Charly?. The Balearic one broke the serve to its rival and it was put with a 3-0 advantage that was very valuable. His opponent struggled hard and was able to fill of uncertainty to Moyà in the ninth game, but finally the Spanish closed the party with new ?break?.
Federer had to put serious with Ferrer
Roger Federer, world-wide number one and first head of series, became the first semifinalist after eliminating in three sleeves and with many difficulties David Ferrer, twelfth head of series. The Swiss prevailed by 6-3, 4-6 and 6-3 in one hour and 46 minutes. The Helvetic tennis player solved the first Seth in little but of half an hour without excessive difficulties and after breaking the serve of Ferrer in the games first and ninth. The alicantino one as soon as he could respond in the first act to the ample repertoire of blows of Fededer. But the second sleeve, Ferrer left arranged to offer more resistance. Thus, it broke the serve of Federer in the initial game, but this one gave back to him to the currency in the following one.
Later, Federer located the 4-2 to its favor after again breaking the serve of the Spanish, but in the interchange of Ferrer blows it returned to balance the fight in the seventh game. Shortly after, the one of Jávea added his third ?break? of this sleeve, it was placed with 5-4 and in the tenth game I score the second Seth.
The equality stayed in third and definitive Seth until the eighth game, in which Federer was located with 5-3 to its favor in worked ?break? before a David Ferrer who never occurred by won. And with its serve, Federer, that takes four matches followed without titles, eliminated the encounter.