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Fish stuns Roddick to reach Cincinnati final

MARDY Fish pulled off a surprise turnaround win over fellow American Andy Roddick to reach the Cincinnati Masters final with a 4-6 7-6 6-1 victory.

Fish, who has reached his third career Masters series final, will face the winner of the semi between world number two Roger Federer and Marcos Baghdatis who play later yesterday.

Ninth seed Roddick had served for the match at 5-3 up in the second set before Fish's unlikely comeback began.

The game had been tight in the first set until a 40 minute rain-break disrupted proceedings and on the return to the court Roddick broke and took the set.

The big-serving Roddick, who will re-enter the top 10 in the world rankings next week, then put himself in a powerful position by grabbing a 5-2 lead in the second.

With Fish about to serve to stay in the match, rain returned, albeit only for 10 minutes, but once again the stoppage had an impact.

Fish held serve to stay in the match before breaking Roddick and pushing the set to a tiebreak which he won in style, to three, against a floundering opponent.

A visibly riled Roddick had lost his composure and never regained it and there was only ever one winner in the third set as Fish cruised to a 6-1 victory.

Fish lost both his previous Masters finals, including to Roddick in Cincinnati seven years ago, but has five ATP tour title wins -- the most recent in Atlanta last month.

 

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