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Moya Keeps Houston Dream Alive, Federer, Henman Advance
Roger Federer easily moved into the semifinals at the CA Tennis Trophy on
Friday, defeating Finland's Jarkko Nieminen 6-3, 6-3. The victory was the
defending champion's eighth straight win here in Vienna and his 65th win for
the year, an ATP best.
Federer has a date now with Max Mirnyi, who stopped Spain’s Feliciano Lopez
in straight sets. The power-serving Mirnyi didn’t face a single break point
all match. Mirnyi improved his record for the year to 38-24, and is looking
for his second title of the year. Earlier this season, he claimed the top
honor at Rotterdam, where he defeated Federer in the semifinals then went on
stop Raemon Sluiter in the final.
Tim Henman also remains in contention to collect his second title of the year,
outplaying Swede Jonas Bjorkman 6-1, 6-4. Henman won the first five games of
the match, including two breaks. Bjorkman was broken four times in the match,
while Henman lost his serve only once. After struggling for much of the first
half of the year, the Briton returned in the second half, winning in
Washington, reaching the semifinals at the Queen's Club in London and the
quarterfinals at Wimbledon.
Henman has a semifinal meeting with Carlos Moya, who edged Germany's Nicolas
Kiefer 6-4, 7-6(5) to advance to his seventh semifinal of the year. Now 7th
in the ATP Champions Race, Moya remains alive in the hunt for the last
remaining spots to the Tennis Masters Cup Houston. Rainer Schuettler became
the sixth player to qualify for the season-ending championship after winning
his quarterfinal match at the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon on Friday. Moya has
already won three titles this year in Umag, Barcelona and Buenos Aires. He
also reached the final in Miami and the semifinals in Monte-Carlo and Bastad.
WHAT THE PLAYERS SAID
Henman:
“I’m very pleased with my performance, I was serving well. It’s great to
finish off in straight sets. It gives me confidence to win as convincingly
like I did.”
“I needed to play my game. I won the first five games, that gave me a lot of
confidence. I think the key was my second serve and the way I was dictating
from the baseline. I’m very happy and confident with the way I’m playing.”
“I’m happy to be in the semifinals here again, I’m enjoying playing here.
It’s certainly one of my best performances of the year.”
Mirnyi:
“All in all I felt quite confident with my game. It was a good match and I
was fortunate to get away with the tie-break in the first set. I’m so
excited to be in the semifinals.”
“I’m looking forward to the semifinals and I will try to make it to the
final to have a shot at the title.”
“I’m excited to play well in Vienna, it’s special to me. The city has so
much to offer, I’ve been to the Opera already and I had some Wiener
Schnitzels.”
Federer:
“Today was a good step in the right direction. I think my whole game was
better, I served a lot better today. I’m just very happy with the way I
played. We played some good points out there.”
“He was playing aggressive. I always feel I have to watch out against Jarkko,
I have to be very concentrated.”
“I’m very happy here, the last 4-5 years I’ve always been playing great.”
About playing Mirnyi
“We are good friends and also sometimes doubles partners. We always have hard
and very fair matches. He is a real gentleman.”
Moya:
“I expected a very tough match. I felt confident, I played very relaxed.”
“It has been a great week for me. I hope I will play even better tomorrow.
It will be a different match than today.”
ATP MATCH WINS LEADERS
Player W-L
1. Roger Federer 65-8
2. Andy Roddick 63-12
3 Rainer Schuettler 62-22
4 Juan Carlos Ferrero 61-10
5. Guillermo Coria 54-14
6. Carlos Moya 54-13
7. Paradorn Srichaphan 47-18
8. Andre Agassi 44-8
9T. Sjeng Schalken 41-17
9T. Jiri Novak 41-20
9T. Jarkko Nieminen 41-26
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