Novak Djokovic advanced to the Serbia Open final after Janko Tipsarevic withdrew from the all-Serb semifinal on Saturday because of a thigh injury. The Australian Open champion will play Feliciano Lopez of Spain on Sunday. Lopez defeated Filippo Volandri of Italy 7-6 (3), 6-2 in the other semifinal. Lopez and Volandri broke each other twice in the first set — ending in a tiebreaker.
Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain defeated Kristina Barrois of Germany 6-1, 6-2 in the rain-delayed women’s final at the Estoril Open on Saturday and Juan Martin del Potro continued his comeback from a wrist injury to gain the men’s title match. Medina Garrigues captured her 10th WTA crown after rain halted the clay-court match when she was leading 3-2 in the second set.
Nikolay Davydenko of Russia advanced to the final of the BMW Open when his semifinal opponent Radek Stepanek retired with a hamstring injury on Saturday. The seventh-seeded Davydenko, who won the Munich tournament in 2004, led 6-3, 4-0 when the Czech quit. Davydenko had treatment on his foot in the first set.
Roberta Vinci of Italy won her second Barcelona Open title in three years Saturday, defeating Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic 4-6, 6-2, 6-2. The 42nd-ranked Vinci won her fourth career title and extended her record on the Barcelona clay to 14-1. Italian women have won three straight years in the Catalan capital, with Francesca Schiavone the champion in 2010.
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An ITF official tells the Austin-American Statesman that the Erwin Center, the site of the USA-Spain July Davis Cup tie, was impressive. “It’s a really great venue, actually,” said the ITF’s Alex Hennessey. “When the stadium is full, it will be fantastic.”
Representatives from the ITF, the USTA and the Spanish Tennis Federation inspected the site. The surface for the tie, “Premier Court,” had been the source of controversy as the Spaniards formally objected to it, but last week, by a unanimous vote, the ITF’s Davis Cup Committee denied their appeal saying that Premier Court complied with regulations. Premier was termed as a generic type of acrylic hard court, which is said to used in over 30 ATP events and two Grand Slam tournaments with varying speeds.
The fast hard court will not be laid down until the week before the tie begins and then it will be inspected by the ITF. The Spaniards are still apparently smarting about the surface choice and an interview with an Austin TV interview one of the federation’s representatives accused the USTA of “unethical behavior.”
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