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 | Del Potro and Tsonga in the semis in Shanghai11-10-2013 |
Juan Martin del Potro approach to just one win away from qualification for the World Cup final round after recording success over Nicolas Almagro with 6-4, 6-3 to reach the semifinals of the Masters Series tournament in Shanghai.
The Argentine recorded a victory over his opponent in the second week after stopped him in the semifinals of the tournament in Tokyo last Saturday. Del Potro won 85 percent of the points in scored first serve and allowed only eight unforced errors throughout the match to reach the success in an hour and 12 minutes.
World No. 5 now has 4,180 points earned from the beginning of the year and another win in Shanghai will provide a place of World Cup final round for the fourth time. In the semifinals Tower of Tandil will face the winner of the match between Rafael Nadal and Stanislas Wawrinka.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga also qualified for the semifinals in Shanghai after beating the German Florian Mayer with 6-2, 6-3. The French tennis player needed a little more than an hour to reach his fourth victory over Meyer in equally matches. With this success, Tsonga climbed to ninth place in the race for the finals of the World Tour, trailing only with 135 points from the eighth Roger Federer. For a place in the finals Tsonga will argue with Novak Djokovic and Gael Monfils