Sun, 11/07/2010 - 22:56 by Prince damin
Valencia, Spain -- No. 4-seeded David Ferrer claimed a straight-set win Sunday over Marcel Granollers in the championship match of the Valencia Open tennis tournament in Spain.
Ferrer, collecting his second title of 2010, beat Granollers 7-5, 6-3. Ferrer landed 75 percent of his first serves and finished by taking 69 percent of the points on serve. He also had three breaks in seven break-point situations.
Granollers was able to convert just one of his four break-point chances, that coming in the first set. But Ferrer got two breaks in that set when he won nearly as many points (28-22) off Granollers' serve as Granollers set.
Ferrer combined one service break with winning 71 percent of the points on serve in taking the second set.
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Sun, 11/07/2010 - 10:29 by Rakhi
Valencia, Spain -- David Ferrer and fellow Spaniard Marcel Granollers will face off in the final of the Valencia Open thanks to semifinals victories Saturday.
Ferrer, seeded No. 4, emerged the winner in a hard-fought match against Sweden's Robin Soderling, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, reaching his fifth final of the season.
Ferrer has claimed one title this year, the eighth in his career, when he won the Acapulco event in February. That came one week after losing to Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero in the championship match at Buenos Aires.
Granollers, meanwhile, gained the Valencia final Saturday after beating Frenchman Gilles Simon 6-4, 6-4.
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Mon, 10/11/2010 - 21:28 by harsheeb
London -- David Ferrer crept back into the men's tennis Top 10 as the 16 highest-ranked players head for Shanghai for a chance to win a place in the ATP World Finals.
Ferrer, who finished second at the China Open, created the only change in the Top 10 by switching places with Andy Roddick, dropping the American to No. 11. Ferrer is ranked 10th but is within 65 ratings points of the No. 8 ranking.
The World Finals, set for late November in London, take the eight highest-ranked players available -- some may be unable to play due to injury -- so positioning to be among the Top Eight in the rankings is important. That's why every player in the Top 16 is at the Shanghai Masters, which began Monday
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Sun, 10/10/2010 - 22:15 by Prince damin
Beijing -- Heavy rains Sunday led tournament organizers to postpone until Monday the final of the China Open between Novak Djokovic and David Ferrer.
The start of the match was delayed 4 1/2 hours and once play did commence, Djokovic managed an early break to go up 3-1 in the first set. However, after about 30 minutes, play was called Sunday.
Both players are looking for their second tournament titles of the year but a finals win in Beijing may mean more for Ferrer, the current world No. 9, than for Djokovic. A win in the semifinals Saturday allowed Djokovic to secure a spot in the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals. The only other player to have locked up a spot is world No. 1 Rafael Nadal, who won the Japan Open title Sunday.
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Sun, 03/07/2010 - 22:10 by Inderjit Singh
Logrono -- David Ferrer's straight-set win Sunday shoved two-time defending champion Spain in the Davis Cup quarterfinals and eliminated Switzerland.
Ferrer topped Stanislas Wawrinka 6-2, 6-4, 6-0 in sealing the best-of-five series victory for Spain and sending the Spaniards into July's Davis Cup quarterfinals against France.
The French claimed a 4-1 win over Germany in their first-round series.
Wawrinka had opened the series Friday with a five-set victory over Nicolas Almagro. But Ferrer beat Marco Chiudinelli in straight sets and the doubles team of Marcel Granollers and Tommy Robredo gave Spain a 2-1 lead going into Sunday's reverse singles.
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Sat, 02/27/2010 - 12:21 by Rakhi
Acapulco, Mexico -- Spaniards David Ferrer and Juan Carlos Ferrero will face off for the championship of the Mexican Open after each won their semifinals matches Friday.
The two will repeat the final of last week's Buenos Aires tournament, which Ferrero won.
In the day's first semifinal match on the clay courts of the Fairmont Acapulco Princess, No. 3 seed Ferrero advanced when his opponent, Argentine Juan Monaco, retired with an abdominal strain after losing the first set 7-5.
The win marked the 14th straight win for Ferrero.
In the second Acapulco semifinal, No. 4 seed Ferrer hung on to down second-seeded Fernando Gonzalez of Chile 6-7 (4-7), 6-0, 6-4.
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Sun, 02/21/2010 - 10:48 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Buenos Aires -- Spaniards David Ferrer and Juan Carlos Ferrero gained the finals of the Copa Telmex tennis event Saturday in Buenos Aires after notching semifinal wins.
No. 1 seed Ferrer, looking for his eighth career title, dominated fellow Spaniard Albert Montanes 6-1, 6-1 in his second match of the day at Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club.
Earlier Saturday, Ferrer defeated No. 6 Igor Andreev 7-5, 6-2, in a quarterfinal match that had been postponed from Friday due to rain.
In Saturday's first semifinal match, Ferrero, the No. 2 seed, triumphed over fourth-seeded Argentine Juan Monaco, who also was playing in his second match of the day. Monaco had to finish his quarterfinal Saturday after it had been stopped due to rain Friday.
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Wed, 02/17/2010 - 09:12 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Buenos Aires -- Top-seeded David Ferrer of Spain and No. 4 seed Argentine Juan Monaco posted first-round wins Tuesday at the Copa Telmex tennis event in Buenos Aires.
Ferrer downed German Simon Greul 6-2, 7-6 (7-3) and moves on to face Portugal's Frederico Gil, while hometown hero Monaco -- who won the Copa Telmex in 2008 and was runner-up last year -- dispatched Poland's Lukasz Kubot 6-4, 7-6 (7-1).
Second-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrero, coming off last week's win the Brasil Open, registered a win, decimating Brazil's Ricardo Mello 6-1, 6-2 on the red clay courts.
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Fri, 02/05/2010 - 10:51 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Johannesburg, South Africa -- Gabe Monfils of France and Spain's David Ferrer, the top two seeds, advanced Thursday to the quarterfinals at the SA Tennis Open in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The top-seeded Monfils beat fellow Frenchman Josselin Ouanna 6-4, 7-5, hitting 12 service aces, and the No. 2 Ferer was a 6-3, 6-4 winner over Sweden's Filip Prpic.
Elsewhere, seventh-seeded Yen-Hsun Lu of Taipei beat South Africa's Raven Klaasen 6-4, 7-5; while India's Somdev Devvarman beat Brazil's Thiago Alves 6-4, 6-1.
Friday's quarterfinal matches are Feliciano Lopez-Rajeev Ram; Stephane Robert-Dustin Brown; Monfils-Lu; and Ferer-Devvarman.
The eventual champion takes home a $75,700 winner's check.
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Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:10 by shalini.bahadur
Valencia, Spain -- Two favorites, top-seeded Andy Murray and reigning champion David Ferrer, advanced in Tuesday's opening round of the Valencia Open in Spain.
Murray, the runner-up in September's U.S. Open, dispatched Spanish wild card Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-3, 6-1, taking only an hour to finish the match. He broke Gimeno-Traver's serve five times in eight tries.
The fourth-ranked Murray didn't appear to be rusty after recovering from an injury to his left wrist and playing for the first time since dropping a fourth-round match at the U.S. Open. He'll next face Argentine Leonardo Mayer.
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Thu, 09/17/2009 - 21:50 by surajdogra
Murcia, Spain -- David Ferrer will lead off for defending champion Spain in a Davis Cup semifinal against Israel this weekend on a red clay court in Murcia, Spain.
Ferrer, ranked 19th in the world, goes against Israel's Harel Levy, who is ranked 140th, in the first match Friday in the best-of-five series in Murcia.
World No. 21 Juan Carlos Ferrero is paired against 29th-ranked Dudi Sela from Israel in Friday's other singles match.
Saturday's schedule has a doubles match with Israelis Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram playing Spain's Feliciano Lopez and Tommy Robredo. Reverse singles, with Levy facing Ferrero and Sela playing Ferrer, are set for Sunday.
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Thu, 08/20/2009 - 10:41 by Jaspreet Virk
Cincinnati, Aug. 19: Sam Querrey highlighted second-round action Wednesday at the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters by eliminating Andy Roddick in two tiebreaks.
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, the event's top two seeds, both advanced and Andy Murray survived as well.
The fifth-seeded Roddick, however, lost a 13-11 tiebreak in the opening set and then dropped the second in a 7-3 tiebreaker. That put Querrey in the third round against Lleyton Hewitt, who defeated Benjamin Becker 6-3, 6-3.
Federer opened his tournament with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Jose Acasuso. That set up a third-round meeting with David Ferrer, who had won his second-round match Tuesday.
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