News - ATP Buenos Aires
Spain's Tommy Robredo won a three-set duel with Juan Monaco of Argentina Sunday in the title match of the Copa Telmex tournament in Buenos Aires. The third-seeded Robredo outlasted Monaco, the 2007 winner of the event, 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (7-5) for his second ATP win of the year and ninth of his career. The
Juan Monaco rallied from a set down Saturday to beat top-seeded David Nalbandian in the semifinals of the Copa Telmex men's tennis tournament in Buenos Aires. The scores of the 2-hour, 41-minute match were 2-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-2). In a strange twist, Nalbandian, the defending champion who played before a partisan crowd, served for the match at 5-4 in the second set, but from 30-0, he lost the next 13 points in a row, allowing his compatriot to square the match at a set apiece. With a tie-break in set three, Monaco secured his first victory in three career meetings against Nalbandian. I was a bit tight in the beginning, Monaco said (but) I would love to win this tournament in front of my home crowd for a second time." In Sunday's final, the unseeded Monaco faces No.
Defending champion David Nalbandian reached the semifinals of the Copa Telmex in Buenos aires Friday by defeating Juan Carlos Ferrero. Nalbandian, the top seed, had a 6-3, 3-0 lead when Ferrero retired.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Spanish former world number one Carlos Moya set up a second-round match with Chile's Nicolas Massu at the Copa Telmex ATP tournament in Buenos Aires.
