ARAG ATP World Team Championship Duesseldorf, Germany
May 23, 2009
Tipsarevic, Troicki Lead Serbia To Maiden Title Over Germany
Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki (pictured) lifted Serbia to its first ARAG
ATP World Team Championship title by winning both of their singles matches in
straight sets against Germany at the Rochusclub in Duesseldorf on Saturday.
Serbia won the tie 2-1.
Tipsarevic gave Serbia an insurmountable 2-0 lead as he handed Philipp
Kohlschreiber his first loss of the week by beating the German 6-2, 6-4. In the
first rubber, Troicki defeated Rainer Schuettler 6-4, 7-6(5) to give Serbia an
early lead.
"I think it is going to be huge and this is respect because Djokovic was not
here. And I think we showed that we are a big tennis nation also if Novak is
not here with us (laughs)," said Tipsarevic.
Serbia, playing in the eight-team championship for the first time, won the Blue
Group with a 3-0 round robin record with victories over Argentina, Russia and
Italy. For the week Serbia won nine of 12 matches.
"I really played well because I was 100 per cent prepared for the match," said
Tipsarevic, who won three of his four singles matches during the week. "I knew
he was going to play good because most of his last matches were pretty easy and
he played really really well. And I also talked a bit to Rainer (Schuettler)
before the match who gave me the right tactic before the match and I’m happy
it worked. (laughing)."
Germany was appearing in the final for the seventh time and they were trying to
capture their fifth title, the first since 2005.
In Tipsarevic's tie-clinching victory, he broke Kohlschreiber twice in the
36-minute opening set and won all 12 of his first serve points. In the second
set he jumped out to a two-break 5-2 advantage before losing his serve for the
first time in the eighth game. He then closed out the one hour and 14-minute
match by holding in the 10th game.
Tipsarevic won 87 per cent of first serve points (27 of 31) to Kohlschreiber's
49 per cent. He converted four of eight break points while saving two of three
on his serve.
In the opening rubber, Troicki won the tightly-contested match as both players
won 81 points in the one hour and 56-minute battle. The first break came in the
ninth game and Troicki held to win the first set. In the second set, Troicki
broke for a 2-1 lead and then served for the match at 5-4 but was broken for
the first time. In the tie-break, Troicki went up 4-2 but Schuettler rallied to
tie it at 5-5. Trociki then sealed the victory by winning the next two points.
In the doubles rubber, Nicolas Kiefer and Mischa Zverev, who saved one match
point in their Friday win to lift Germany into the final, beat Troicki and
Nenad Zimonjic 7-5, 4-6, 10-7.
http://www.atpworldtour.com/tennis/1/en/news/newsarticle_3759.asp
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