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Saturday, November 01, 2008

Federer, Nadal Withdraw; Tsonga, Nalbandian in Paris Masters Final

David Nalbandian
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

At the Paris ATP Masters tournament top seeds Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer withdrew with injuries before their quarterfinal matchups with James Blake and Nikolay Davydenko, who both lost their semifinal matches to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and David Nalbandian. Federer's injury was a bad back, and Nadal was "sharp pain" in his knee. Nalbandian is the defending champion, and Tsonga, this year's Australian Open finalist, is in his first ATP Masters Series final, which happens to be in his hometown of Bercy, France. Tsonga took three hours to defeat Andy Roddick in his quarterfinal match 5-7 6-4 7-6(5) on Thursday. By defeating Blake, Tsonga dashed the American's chances of qualifying for the year-end tour championships in Shanghai in two weeks. Whoever wins the final on Saturday will clinch the eighth slot. The other qualifiers are:
  1. Rafael Nadal
  2. Roger Federer
  3. Novak Djokovic
  4. Andy Murray
  5. Nikolay Davydenko
  6. Andy Roddick
  7. Juan Martin del Potro
Go Tsonga!
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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous7:01 PM, November 01, 2008

    So happy to Juan Martin make it to Shanghai, and, it was odd to see Blake act so un-sportsmanlike in his beat down at the end of the match. JW played SPECTALR tennis today, and, I doubt if anyone could have beat him he was totally in the zone.

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