Gaudio outlasts Verdasco, wins Generali in four sets
July 31, 2005
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports
KITZBUEHEL, Austria -- Third-seeded Gaston Gaudio beat Fernando Verdasco
2-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 to win the Generali Open on Sunday in a match that
was delayed for two hours by rain.
Verdasco saved eight match points before the Argentine finally closed out
the victory.
"I am so, so happy. I was already in the final last year, but failed to
win. I wanted to make up for it this time and it worked," said Gaudio, who
lost to Nicolas Massu in last year's championship match.
Things didn't begin well for last year's French Open champion, as Verdasco
easily took the opening set.
"I completely missed the start of the match," Gaudio said. "Somehow I could
not find my rhythm and when I did, the set was over."
Gaudio responded by breaking the Spaniard in the first game of the second
set and jumped to a 3-0 lead in the third set. Gaudio then led 4-2 when the
match was delayed.
"Breaks as long as this one are always tough. So it was better for us to
go on than to keep waiting," Gaudio said.
After the delay, Gaudio easily closed out the set.
"I just could not cope with the rainy conditions," Verdasco said. "The balls
were different, the hits were, too. It was tough."
Verdasco erased a 4-1 deficit in the fourth set to get to 5-4, but Gaudio
served out of the match as the rain again started to fall.
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