News - Estoril Open
Albert Montanes of Spain beat a tired James Blake in three sets Sunday to capture the men's Estoril Open tennis title in Estoril, Portugal. The scores of the nearly 2 1/2 hour match were 5-7, 7-6 (7-6), 6-0. Montanes, the seventh seed, saved two match points at 4-5 in the second set and blitzed the
Belgium's Yanina Wickmayer captured the women's title Saturday at the Estoril (Portugal) Open with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Russia's Ekaterina Makarova. Wickmayer, the 88th-ranked women's player, captured her first singles title.
Saturday's headline match at the Estoril (Portugal) Open tennis tournament between James Blake and Nikolay Davydenko was suspended by darkness. The second-seeded Davydenko led the semifinal 7-6(3), 2-4 when the clay-court match was called because of what officials termed bad light.
Albert Montanes won a third-set tiebreaker Friday and eliminated top-seeded Gilles Simon from the $595,000 clay-court Estoril Open in Portugal. Montanes, seeded seventh, and Simon each broke the other's serve six times in the three-hour match but Montanes advanced with a 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) triumph.
Ekaterina Makarova advanced to her second WTA Tour final in as many weeks Friday with a solid victory in the clay-court Estoril Open in Portugal. Makarova, who played in the final last week in Morocco, ran by eighth-seeded Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-3, 6-1 in 57 minutes.
