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Malaysian Open tennis tournament

Davydenko, Verdasco win Malaysia semis

Sun, 10/04/2009 - 01:51 by surajdogra

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- No. 1 Nikolay Davydenko and second-seeded Fernando Verdasco won Saturday's semifinals at the Malaysian Open tennis tournament at Kuala Lumpur.

The Russian rallied to down third-seeded Robin Soderling of Sweden 1-6, 7-6 (7-1), 6-2. Verdasco was a 6-4, 7-5 victor against fourth-seeded Fernando Gonzalez of Chile.

"I would love to win this tournament," Davydenko said on the Association of Tennis Professionals Web site. "I have the confidence to win, but every match is different."

Sunday's Verdasco-Davydenko winner earns a $154,000 champion's check.

"(Nikolay) has beaten me more times than I have beaten him, but I hope I can play my best tennis and win the title," Verdasco said.

Copyright 2009 by United Press International.

Dent wins third-set tiebreaker in Malaysia

Mon, 09/28/2009 - 22:31 by Salinder Kumar

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- Taylor Dent and Marcos Baghdatis both survived third-set tiebreakers Monday in first-round wins at the $947,750 Malaysian Open tennis tournament.

Dent rallied for a 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) win over Andrey Golubev despite eight double faults. Half of those came in the third set but he still earned a
second-round match against top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko.

Baghdatis needed 2 hours, 49 minutes to get by Yen-Hsun Le 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) in the strength of 17 aces. He had seven aces in the third set.

In the other first-round match played Monday, Brendan Evans topped Michael 6-3, 6-4. Evans didn't face a break point in the battle between two American qualifiers.

Copyright 2009 by United Press International.