Del Potro resists – Djokovic in semifinals at tennis Masters
* After losing all three matches in 2007, the Serbian knows no defeat in 2008
* Tsonga, first eliminated after suffering his second before the Argentine defeat in the tournament
Tsonga shows his frustration at one point before Del Potro.
SHANGHAI .- Novak Djokovic got the first ticket to the semifinals after winning the Masters by Nikolay Davydenko 7-6, 0-6 and 7-5. The Russian will play with Del Potro in the plaza. The Argentine won the French Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in two sets (7-6 (4), 7-6 (5)), after an hour and 50 minute match.
Del Potro, head of the seventh grade, and Tsonga, sixth favorite, both beginners in the tournament and coming to this clash after having fallen on the opening day, it broke into a meeting tremendously equalized in which the majority of cold-blooded of Tandil at the height of each sleeve was crucial to determine the winner.
Two ‘breaks’ in each set, distributed fairly between two players very confident in the service during the clash, which took part both were resolved in the’ tie-break ‘, a sort in which Del Potro, who finally came out unscathed of the 17 ‘aces’ who signed the’ gunboat ‘of Le Mans, was superior.
With this result, the Argentine, who has added four titles this season and will be one of the rivals of the ‘Navy’ Spanish in the Davis Cup final, Davydenko will play with his presence among the four ‘master’.
Meanwhile, Tsonga, who came to Shanghai with the morale through the roof after his triumph in the Masters Series in Paris, was sacked after Djokovic’s victory over Davydenko.
Djokovic moves to semifinals
The Serbian was imposed to Russian Nikolay Davydenko, the fourth, by 7-6 (7-3), 0-6 and 7-5 in the second match of the two in the Masters in Shanghai. With this victory, Djokovic is assured a place in the semifinals of the tournament, while Daydenko is at the expense of what happens on the day of Thursday, as it is tied with Argentine Juan Martin del Potro to a victory and one defeat.
Djokovic had to overcome in the first manga to match its rival in the tiebreaker and exhibited a wide array of strokes, but sank so inexplicable in the second set, in which Davydenko had no mercy.
In the final part, when everything pointed to a new ‘tie break’, the Serbian took a break that put him ahead 6-5 and finished with his serve in the second match point he had.
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