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 | Monfils and Nieminen will compete for the title in Stockholm22-10-2011 |
Gael Monfils (France), met serious difficulties with Canadian Milos Raonich semifinals of a tennis tournament in Stockholm with a prize of 600,000 euros, but still beat him with a 6:7 (6:8), 6:4, 6:3. So Monfils, who is number 1 in the scheme of the tournament qualified for the finals. There will be his rival Bright Nieminen (Finland), eliminated American James Blake 7-6 (7-5), 5:7, 6:2. Raonich which side of the quarter Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, back in the match at 4:5 in the first set tiebreak and came to who wins. At the beginning of the second set he made a break and lead 2-1. In 4:4, however, kept on the 10th place ranking Frenchman broke his back, and then the next two games to match. In the third set was a decisive moment of breakthrough when Monfils 3-3. Nieminen was there until now only one title from 10 appearances in the finals, but I managed to cope with hot match with James Blake. At this event lost Finn twice-in 2001-a of Sieng Schalke (the Netherlands) in 2006, and from Blake.