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 | Nadal and Davydenko with a new wins in Qatar6-01-2011 |
World No. 1 Rafael Nadal (Spain) beat Ernests Gulbis (Latvia) with 7:6 (7:3), 6:3 and qualified for the semifinals of the Qatar tennis tournament with a prize fund of $ 1 million. The Spaniard, who played the tournament flu, won after a tough first set tiebreak, but in the second gave his opponent just three games. In an attempt to qualify for the second consecutive year in the finals Rafael Nadal will face last year's champion Nikolay Davydenko (Russia), who beat Ivo Karlovic (Croatia) 6:3, 7:5 and goes on in the tournament. World No. 2 Roger Federer (Switzerland) also qualified for the semifinals. Federer reached the quarterfinals with easy win 6:2, 6:2 for 65 minutes over Victor Troizk (Serbia) and for the fifth time will play in the semifinals. Federer was twice champion of the tournament and has 21 wins and 3 losses in Doha. In another match of the quarterfinals, No. 3-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spain) with 7:6 (7:4), 7:6 (9:7). Tsonga fight for the final of the ATP tournament for the first time in the past 15 months. His last Cup final or was in Tokyo in 2009. Federer in the semifinals will meet Tsonga.