Shanghai surprise as Monaco in semifinals
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October 16, 2010, Saturday
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SWISS maestro Roger Federer sliced through fifth seed Robin Soderling with a 6-1, 6-1 victory to reach the Shanghai Rolex Masters semifinals yesterday.
Third seed Federer broke serve three times to wrap up the first set in 29 blistering minutes as the woeful Soderling played little more than a meek cameo role.
The second set was four minutes shorter as quick-firing Federer smashed four aces to call time in 54 blurred minutes.
Federer now faces a last four showdown with Serb Novak Djokovic, who trounced unseeded Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-2, 6-3.
Britain's Andy Murray brushed aside burly Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-2, 6-2 as he confirmed his return to form after a recent illness.
Murray took command early in the first set and was hardly troubled in the second as he advanced to last four.
"He struggled a little bit on his serve and wasn't serving as big as usual, so I managed to get into a lot of the return games," said Murray.
"I served well and didn't give him any chances on my serve. I was hitting the ball really cleanly from the back of the court, so it was a good start," he added.
The error-prone Tsonga was no match for the 23-year-old world number four, whose stinging backhand returns forced the 12th seed into submission.
Murray will meet Juan Monaco in the last four after the Argentine battled to a 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-2 win over Austria's Juergen Melzer, the 13th seed who knocked out world No. 1 Rafael Nadal on Thursday.
"I know Andy's a very good player. He fights a lot and it will be tough for me," said the unseeded Monaco, ranked 41 in the world.
"I think today was playing very well, but if I want to beat Andy, I have to play a little bit better tomorrow."
In Osaka, Kimiko Date Krumm became the first 40-something to beat a top-10 player on the WTA Tour when she ousted No. 8-ranked Samantha Stosur 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (4) at the Japan Women's Open quarterfinals yesterday.
Date Krumm, who turned 40 on September 28, missed a match point against the top-seeded Australian at 5-4 in the third set, but converted her second in the tiebreaker after more than two and a half hours.
Third seed Federer broke serve three times to wrap up the first set in 29 blistering minutes as the woeful Soderling played little more than a meek cameo role.
The second set was four minutes shorter as quick-firing Federer smashed four aces to call time in 54 blurred minutes.
Federer now faces a last four showdown with Serb Novak Djokovic, who trounced unseeded Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-2, 6-3.
Britain's Andy Murray brushed aside burly Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-2, 6-2 as he confirmed his return to form after a recent illness.
Murray took command early in the first set and was hardly troubled in the second as he advanced to last four.
"He struggled a little bit on his serve and wasn't serving as big as usual, so I managed to get into a lot of the return games," said Murray.
"I served well and didn't give him any chances on my serve. I was hitting the ball really cleanly from the back of the court, so it was a good start," he added.
The error-prone Tsonga was no match for the 23-year-old world number four, whose stinging backhand returns forced the 12th seed into submission.
Murray will meet Juan Monaco in the last four after the Argentine battled to a 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-2 win over Austria's Juergen Melzer, the 13th seed who knocked out world No. 1 Rafael Nadal on Thursday.
"I know Andy's a very good player. He fights a lot and it will be tough for me," said the unseeded Monaco, ranked 41 in the world.
"I think today was playing very well, but if I want to beat Andy, I have to play a little bit better tomorrow."
In Osaka, Kimiko Date Krumm became the first 40-something to beat a top-10 player on the WTA Tour when she ousted No. 8-ranked Samantha Stosur 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (4) at the Japan Women's Open quarterfinals yesterday.
Date Krumm, who turned 40 on September 28, missed a match point against the top-seeded Australian at 5-4 in the third set, but converted her second in the tiebreaker after more than two and a half hours.
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