[情報] Moya, Coria to Meet in Final

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Carlos Moya looking for his 12th ATP title as he faces 21-year-old Coria of
Argentina.

Carlos Moya won a tight tiebreak against Brazil's Gustavo Kuerten on Saturday
and cruised from there to win 7-6(8), 6-1 and move into the final of the Copa
AT&T in Buenos Aires for the second time in his career. After losing to
Gustavo Kuerten the first four times they played, Carlos Moya has now won
three of the past four matches against the former World No. 1 and three-time
Roland Garros champion.

In the days' first semifinal, a battle of Argentine's saw 21-year-old
Guillermo Coria defeat 24-year-old Gaston Gaudio in three sets in front
of the vocal Argentine fans. The last time these two played was two years
ago at this very tournament, where Gaudio came away with a win in the
quarterfinal. In the only ATP title won by Coria, he defeated Gaudio in
the final at Vina del Mar in 2001.

WHAT THE PLAYERS SAID:
Guillermo Coria: "I started very well in the first set and did what I had
to do. In the second set, I think I was just taking it easy, but in the
third set I was solid and concentrated and going for my shots."

"There was a lot of emotion in that match, the second time I've felt this
much emotion during the week."

"I'm always trying to attack with my game. Matches with other Argentinians
are always so close because we know each other's games so well."

"My right foot problem is OK right now."

Carlos Moya: "I wasn't so comfortable in the first set, and Guga was serving
very hard, but I played as close to perfection as my game can play in the
second set. It was my best level of tennis so far."

"Yesterday the court was heavy and to win this kind of match [against Horna]
really gave me a lot of confidence going into this match."

"I'm not too worried about the final against Coria tomorrow. Even though the
crowd will be with him, I have eight years of experience with this and I hope
the crowd will be a little bit with me too, because I love Buenos Aires and
Argentina."

on being friends with Guga Kuerten
"Even 10 years after we retire from tennis I will be friends the Guga and
that is not something I can say about every tennis player."

FINAL PREVIEW

Guillermo Coria goes for his second career title having won in Vina del Mar
in 2001. His last appearance in an ATP final was in Costa do Sauipe, Brazil,
last year when he lost to Gustavo Kuerten in the final. Carlos Moya is going
for his 12th career singles title and first of the year in 2003. Last year,
Moya won four titles, three of them on clay, including Acapulco in February.
Moya's first career ATP title came in Buenos Aires in 1995. These two players
have not met since 2000, when Coria was just 18 years old in his first year
on tour. Moya defeated Coria in straight sets in Mallorca, Spain.
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Coria正是上次巴西公開賽final敗給Guga的人…
Moya如果沒有意外的話，拿下並不是很困難吧…他在四強把Guga打敗了…
(還是很想看這場…Moya說是他至今打出最高水平的比賽呢！)
然後又補充一句：「即使十年後我們都退休了，我仍將是Guga的朋友~我並不會對每一
個網球選手說同樣的話」…嗯…可見Guga人真的很好、也是很優秀的選手…



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