Ferrer Nadal Moya Lopez and Verdasco want to win Toronto

Posted by bumeral

July 23, 2008

Nadal is already in Toronto to play the sixth Masters Series season, which begins today. Following his victory at Wimbledon, the Balearic and prepares the assault to the top of the ATP ranking. On Wednesday debut in this tournament, as he himself admits, “never gave me very well,” but hoped that “the situation will change and why not, it is this year.”

In statements he made before leaving for Toronto to TVE, the leader of the year in the Champions Race defines its goal with humility: “We must try to continue the same, if I maintain, the goal will be to try to be number one.”

A first ATP ranking position that is a little closer than before, but that always has to be complicated. ” Despite the seven titles in 2008, leads the ATP Rafa not because “I have coincided with Federer who is almost the best in history”, something that discourages the non-Manacor: “I’m happy with what I do and the only way I can get where I would like, at number one, “Nadal already claimed one expects that time, but that was not overwhelming.

The Spanish Tommy Robredo is ranked for the second round of the Masters Series Toronto, sixth of the season after the break local tennis player Frederic Niemeyer in two sets by 7-6 and 6-1.

Robredo joins the Spaniards exempt from the first round like David Ferrer and Rafael Nadal while Moya, Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco must win to seal his move to the second round.

The Hostalric maintained for an interesting duel with Niemeyer, above the number 200 in the ATP ranking, during the first sleeve. The Canadian, with excellent service and good blows right, the rate remained until the sudden death.

But in the tiebreaker game, Robredo, stronger and less erratic, marked differences and won by 7-4. Already in the second sleeve, Niemeyer revealed the reasons for its position ATP and handed the set on a plate by the Spanish 6-1.

Robredo now expects the match between rival Croatian Marin Cilic and a player from the prior, so the Balkan oriented as his opponent, in addition to proceed carefully in the Toronto Masters.

Remote Feliciano

For its part, Feliciano Lopez reached his pass to the second round of the Masters Series Toronto (Canada) to defeat the Czech Radek Stepanek, eleventh-seeded in the initial phase.

The Toledo tennis player needed two hours to defeat his opponent by 4-6, 6-3 and 6-4. Lopez should expect to encounter between Russian Dmitry Tursunov and Ecuadorian Nicolas Lapentti to meet his rival in the second round.

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