Carlos won again! You little bewdy!!
He beat Latvian Ernests Gulbis in 4 sets.
Report:
VETERAN MOYA SEES OFF GULBIS Tues 4 Sept., 2007
Carlos Moya used all his experience to stop the charge of teenager
Ernests Gulbis.
In a match between the oldest and youngest men left in the singles
draw 31-year-old Spaniard Moya needed four sets to oust the 19-year-
old Latvian and deny the youngster his bid to reach last eight on his
championship debut.
Moya, seeded 17th, won 7-5 6-2 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 in two hours 25 minutes
at the Arthur Ashe Stadium to set up a potential meeting with number
three Novak Djokovic,who was due to play Juan Monaco.
The powerful and gifted Gulbis had not dropped a set in dispatching
Potito Starace, the unseeded Michael Berrer and eighth seed Tommy
Robredo in quick order but in Moya, the 1998 French Open champion, he
finally met his match and was quickly two sets down.
The 6ft 3ins Latvian was not about to capitulate, however, and fought
back admirably to keep the match alive with a tiebreak victory in the
third set.
Moya, who had been taken to five sets by Germany's Phillipp
Kohlschreiber in the previous round, seemed determined not to go the
distance again and having tried and failed to close out the match in
three sets he pulled out all the stops to win in four, finishing the
match with a sublime, angled crosscourt winner on match point.
--- In carlosmoya2@yahoogroups.com, bev29x <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Yay! Carlos beat Kohlschreiber - but it was tough, in 5 sets. Moya
> was leading 2 sets to 1, and 4-2 in the 4th, but let the other guy
> back into the match, so had to win in 5. Score was: 4-6, 7-5, 7-6,
4-
> 6, 6-4. Phew!
>
>
> --- In carlosmoya2@yahoogroups.com, bev29x <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > oops, of course I mean 'round', not ropund'!
> >
> > --- In carlosmoya2@yahoogroups.com, bev29x <no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Carlos is going well at the US Open. He is through to the 3rd
> > ropund
> > > without dropping a set. :-)
> > > He beat Bjorn Phau first up, then Russian guy Kunitsyn next.
> > > Today he plays German Phillip Kohlschreiber on Grandstand
court.
> > >
> > > VAMOS CARLOS!
> > >
> > > --- In carlosmoya2@yahoogroups.com, bev29x <no_reply@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > And 'Feliz cumpleanos' Carlos - Happy birthday for August 27!!
> > > > He is now 31. Gets better with age ... :-)
> > > >
> > > > --- In carlosmoya2@yahoogroups.com, bev29x <no_reply@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Carlos plays qualifier Bjorn Phau first up.
> > > > > On paper, his draw doesn't look too bad ...
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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