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Saturday, July 19th 2003
Lopez only keeps up for one Set - Guillermo Coriareaches
MercedesCup Semifinal - in a Class of his Own
The Spaniard Feliciano Lopez only managed to carry on the superb
quarter-final performance against Rainer Schuttler for a short time at the
beginning of the first set in the second semifinal of the 25th MercedesCup
on Saturday afternoon. He quickly took Guillermo Coria's service game and
went into the lead before the Argentinian started to put on the pressure
and began to dominate the match. Re-break, yet another break and the result
was the first set won after only 37 minutes. In the second set, Coria then
demonstrated the same form that he had had on Friday afternoon when he swept
defending champion Mikhail Youzhny from the court 6:0, 6:0. Without losing
one single game, the champion of the Tennis Masters tournament in Hamburg
finished the match after another 20 minutes and will be confronting the
Spaniard Tommy Robredo in the final tomorrow.
"That was a great match for me. I think I once again played one of the best
matches of my career," said a visibly pleased Coria, who does not regard it
as a bad omen that his coach Alberto Mancini was defeated by Michael Stich
in four sets in the final of the 1991 MercedesCup. "I think I can profit from
my coach's experience," said Coria who is expecting a long and difficult
match against Robredo. "It will probably go over 4 or 5 sets."
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Stomach problems force Gonzalez to retire - Tommy Robredo First
MercedesCup Finalist
After only 42 minutes, Fernando Gonzalez was not able to continue. The
22-year-old Chilean had stomach problems during the first semifinal at the
25th MercedesCup and was finally forced to retire with the score at 2:6, 1:4.
This means that the Spaniard Tommy Robredo is the first finalist of the
MercedesCup 2003. The 21-year-old - who is on the look out for a new car at
the moment - could solve his problem with one more victory from 1 p.m. on
CET tomorrow and start on his journey home in a brand new Mercedes-Benz CLK
240 convertible.
"From the very beginning I had the feeling that something was wrong with him.
But at the start he really put on the pressure," said Robredo about his
opponent after the match. "He tried to hit the balls even harder and to make
the point much faster than usual." The French Open quarter-finalist was
visibly happy about the course of his tournament week at MercedesCup up to
now. "Of course, I will now try to carry on in the same way as during the
last few day, to win the tournament and take the car home with me. But that
will be a very difficult match tomorrow, perhaps even over five sets."
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