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 | Federer finally the semifinals in Paris, waiting for Monfils13-11-2010 |
Roger Federer (Switzerland) and Gael Monfils (France) qualified for the semifinals of the Masters tennis tournament 1000, held in Paris and has a prize fund € 2,750,000 / $ 3,857,698. Before them it made Michael Llodra (France) and Swede Robin Soderling, who formed the first semifinal pair.
Federer beat Juergen Melzer (Austria), 6:1, 7:6 (7:4) and qualified for the semifinals at the Paris Masters for the first time. In his previous three appearances Swiss dropping increasingly unhappy in the quarterfinals. With this victory, and success of the tournaments at Stockholm and Basel, Federer's record and 12 consecutive victories. He was applauded vigorously in the first set, which opened with an ace and won just 20 minutes. Federer, who carried 18 aces and 33 S. WEINERT in this match will face Gael Monfils in the semifinals, last year's finalist. After losing just three points in the first set, Federer met in the second minor difficulty is mobilized against the Austrian. The match went par, came to the tiebreak, where Meltzer made a big mistake to give priority to the Swiss. 4:4 For many easy volley he sent the ball into the net. Then there was no problem for Federer to control the match.
Monfils does it deal with the question number 3 Andy Murray (Britain) 6:2, 2:6, 6:3. For 29-year-old Melzer this is the third successive defeat by Federer in 2010-a year, in all their previous matches, he has not won even a set.
Murray started poorly in the first set, and it certainly had trouble with serve. In the fifth game of that set, Monfils made a decisive breakthrough, after the 23-year-old Scot made two consecutive unforced errors.
Murray defeats itself explainhere today and with the match against Marin Cilic in the previous round, which it pretty exhausted. "I just went to bed at 3:00 after midnight and there was no way to completely recover. From hand and my whole game mode is violated, said Murray after it was clear that in the third set no opportunity to oppose Monfils.