Federer rolls; Nadal barely reaches Dubai QFs
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02/28/2007 -
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Three-time champion Roger
Federer was a straight-set second-round winner, while reigning titlist Rafael
Nadal went the distance to advance on Day 3 at the $1.5 million Dubai Tennis
Championships.
The top-seeded/world No. 1 Federer got past Italian Daniele Bracciali 7-5, 6-3
to record his personal-best 38th straight match victory.
Federer was last year's Dubai runner-up to Nadal and captured this lucrative
hardcourt event back-to-back-to-back from 2003-05.
Federer's quarterfinal opponent here on Thursday will be seventh-seeded
Serbian Novak Djokovic, who lost to the mighty Swiss in straight sets at
the recent Australian Open.
On Monday, Federer was honored here when he officially set the record by
topping the ATP rankings for a 161st straight week. American legend Jimmy
Connors set the original mark of 160 back in 1977.
A second-seeded Nadal won his seventh straight match at this tournament
by holding off dangerous Russian Igor Andreev 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7-2) at Dubai
Tennis Stadium.
The reigning two-time French Open champion Nadal, of Spain, will encounter
last week's Rotterdam titlist Mikhail Youzhny here on Thursday.
Third-seeded world No. 4 Nikolay Davydenko was an upset victim on Day 3, as
the gritty Russian succumbed to pesky Belgian Olivier Rochus 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. On
Tuesday, Davydenko needed just under three hours to sneak past 35-year-old
Moroccan Younes El Aynaoui in three sets.
Fifth-seeded German Tommy Haas won his seventh straight match overall by
handling Frenchman Florent Serra 7-6 (7-5), 6-3. Haas is fresh off his title
in Memphis, where he upended U.S. Open runner-up Andy Roddick in last week's
finale.
In other action involving seeds, a surging Youzhny upended sixth-seeded Czech
Tomas Berdych 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 and the aforementioned Djokovic topped German
qualifier Rainer Schuettler 7-6 (7-5), 6-3.
Two other results saw Swede Robin Soderling subdue Slovakian Dominik Hrbaty
6-3, 7-5 and Frenchman Fabrice Santoro stop his countryman Gilles Simon 6-4,
6-2. Simon titled in Marseille just two weeks ago.
The other quarterfinals here will pit the hot Haas against Rochus and
Soderling versus Santoro, the 2002 Dubai champion.
This week's titlist will collect $300,000.
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Albert Pujols to be This Year's Home Run Champ Says Online Sportsbook
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