Verdasco Reaches Third Final This Season In Gstaad

Written by: Global Chick on 30th July 2011

Verdasco Reaches Third Final This Season In Gstaad

Fernando Verdasco of Spain returns the ball to his compatriot Nicolas Almagro of Spain during their semi final match at the Suisse Open tennis tournament in Gstaad, Switzerland, 30 July 2011. Verdasco won 6-7(2), 7-6(2) and 6-3. EPA/PETER KLAUNZER |

It will be the battle of the Spaniards in the final of the Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad tomorrow. World number twenty Fernando Verdasco will face fellow countryman world number 45 Marcel Granollers in Sunday’s final.

The No. 4 seed Fernando Verdasco beat another Spaniard Nicolas Almagro in the semi-final yesterday in three sets 6-7 (2) 7-6 (2) 6-3. Verdasco got revenge this week. He lost to Almagro in the semi-final of Hamburg last week

“We had very few chances to break each other in the first two sets because I think we were both playing well on serve. It was a very difficult match, very mental and I just tried to play point by point,” Verdasco said.

Fernando Verdasco reached his third final for the season. He lost in both San Jose and Estoril. He won his last title in Barcelona in April 2010 when he defeated Robin Soderling in the final.

The other final participant is Marcel Granollers who took out Russian Mikhail Youznhy in three sets 6-3 3-6 6-2. Sunday’s final will be Granollers third career ATP Tour final. The Russian has won the their last two meeting in Rotterdam and Dusseldorf this year.
“I started the match very well. But I lost my serve in the first game of the second set and then the match changed a little bit because Youzhny started to play better and better,” Granollers said.

Tomorrow’s final at the Crédit Agricole Suisse Open will commence at 11.00 am.

Top seeds Frantisek Cermak and Filip Polasek reached the final in Gstaad after beating Victor Hanescu and Rogier Wassen in two straight sets 6-4 6-3. This is Cermak and Polasek’s third title ATP World Tour final this season.

Wimbledon semi-finalists Christopher Kas and Alexander Peya breezed past the number four seeds Johan Brunstrom and Adil Shamasdin 6-4 6-1. This is Kas and Peya’s second ATP World Tour final of the season.

The doubles final will be played after the singles final on Sunday.

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