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Moya knocks Ferrero out of Estoril Open
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-04-29 08:58
Top-seeded Carlos Moya defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-4
Thursday to move into the quarterfinals of the Estoril Open.
Spain's Carlos Moya
returns the ball to Juan Carlos Ferrero, also from Spain, during their
Estoril Open second round tennis match Thursday, April 28 2005, in Oeiras,
outside Lisbon, Portugal. [AP] |
In another
all-Spanish match, fourth-seeded Tommy Robredo struggled before beating unseeded
Santiago Ventura 7-5, 6-0. Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu also advanced with a
6-1, 6-1 victory over Tomas Cakl, and Davide Sanguinetti rallied to defeat
Albert Costa 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
In a tense match lasting almost three hours between the two former French
Open champions, Moya clinched the first set when his return struck the top of
the net and bounced out of Ferrero's reach.
"I was expecting a match like this. Our encounters are always really tough,"
Moya said.
Ferrero broke Moya's serve twice in the second set and took a 4-2 lead before
Moya broke back and pulled level at 4-4. Ferrero went on to save three match
points and, despite unforced errors, win the tie-break.
The final set was level until Moya broke Ferrero's serve in the ninth game
and then served for the match.
"I was very tired in the last set, physically and mentally," Ferrero said. "I
could hardly hit the ball."
In the women's tournament, second-seeded Dinara Safina took less than an hour
to beat Ukraine's Katerina Bondarenko 6-2, 6-2.
Also, Lucie Safarova erased a 5-3 deficit in the second set to beat Michaella
Krajicek 3-6, 7-6 (6), 7-5, Mariana Diaz-Oliva ousted Olga Savchuk 6-2, 6-3, and
American Jill Craybas defeated Slovakia's Ludmila Cervanova 6-4,
6-1.
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