Oh dear, Carlos lost his match against Fognini ... so much for
defending his Umag title here, grrrr :-(

Report:

VERDASCO, ANDREEV REACH SEMI-FINALS; FOGNINI UPSETS MOYA

Top seed Fernando Verdasco defeated German Mischa Zverev 7-5, 7-5 on
Friday at the ATP Croatia Studena Open in Umag to advance to an ATP
semifinal for the second straight week. He next faces seventh-seeded
Italian Fabio Fognini (pictured), who upset five-time Umag champion
and No. 3 seed Carlos Moya, 6-4, 6-3.
Fognini denied defending champion Moya a ninth straight appearance in
the Umag semifinals as he posted his first career win in three
attempts against the 31-year-old Spaniard. Moya prevented Fognini
from serving out the match at 5-2, but the Italian followed by
breaking him for the sixth time in the next game.

Fognini, 21, reached his first career ATP semifinal in February at
Costa do Sauipe (l. to Almagro) and reached the stage again last
month in Warsaw (l. to Davydenko). Earlier this month, he won the
Challenger title at Turin (d. Junquiera).

Moya falls to a 45-9 career record in Umag. He won his first event
title in 1996 (d. Mantilla), followed with three straight from 2001-
03 (d. Golmard, Ferrer and Volandri in succession) and reclaimed the
title last year (d. Pavel).




--- In carlosmoya2@yahoogroups.com, bev29x <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Yay! Carlos won his match against Troicki - but he had to fight
hard.
> Bien hecho! Here is a report:
>
> Croatia holder Moya fights way to last 8
>
> UMAG, Croatia (AP) -- Defending champion Carlos Moya needed nearly
> three hours to subdue Serbian Viktor Troicki 3-6 7-6 (2) 7-5 on
> Wednesday and reach the quarterfinals at the Croatia Open.
>
> Moya, a five-time Umag champion and seeded third, double-faulted
three
> times and was broken three times to lose the first set to Troicki,
last
> year's semifinalist.
>
> He recovered in the second set, fighting off three break points --
two
> at 4-4 and one at 5-5 -- to force a tiebreak and even the match.
Moya
> said losing "crossed my mind. But this is Umag - I cannot lose
here."
>
> Moya jumped ahead 3-0 in the final set, but Troicki equalized at 3-
3
> and was within two points ahead of victory at 5-4.The Spaniard
> eventually overcame his 44 first-serve percentage to win in 2
hours, 45
> minutes.
>
> Moya - who had a bye in the first round - next will play seventh-
seeded
> Fabio Fognini, who beat two-time Umag finalist Filippo Volandri 6-
4, 6-
> 4.
>
>
>
> --- In carlosmoya2@yahoogroups.com, "sagarmeansocean"
> <sagarmeansocean@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In carlosmoya2@yahoogroups.com, bev29x <no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Carlos plays Umag this week, he is seeded No. 3 (Verdasco is 1,
> > > Karlovic 2 - Moya is in Verdasco's half).
> > > Carlos has a bye first up. I so-o-o hope he does well here, as
> > > defending champion he needs to step up and play like the old
Carlos
> > we
> > > know ... wouldn't it be great if he won it once again?
> > >
> > yes mate its been a high time now.we cant see our hero strugglin
can
> we?
> > hopefully he regains his form from here so tht he does well in us
> open.
> >
>