yesterday Pablo Cuevas got an extraordinary and historic victory against American Andy Roddick Former world No. 1 ranking and eighth in the world today.
The Salta played a great game, not playing an outstanding tennis anyway able to strike at key moments. He was patient, he was very focused and his serve was really impressive. Concrete
15 aces double-faulted won 74% of the points he played with the service and also except the 4 chances to break Roddick took, he broke into one of the 7 times you could not.
The first set was very even and the Uruguayan middle of that achieved the only break, given him the advantage and took the sleeve. In the second set, Roddick was a tired party that managed to stay in thanks to his serve began to help him greatly.
Service Service arrived at the tie break. There, the local player began the hard way: With a double fault. More solid, Cuevas gave no chances in their turn to kick and went up 4-2 at the break. At the turn did not pass smoothly and without too much trouble closing the tiebreaker 7-4.
The Uruguayan was defeated in the ATP de Viña Del Mar 2008 in English Fernando Versasco by 7-5 6-3 in the second round, the southpaw at that time held the world rankings at number 29, another great victory had been in that same tournament but in 2009 with Albert Montanes 7-6 6-4 40 in the world. We also remember the great performance of Salta in Hamburg where aclanzo the semifinals and defeated, among others, Nicolas Almagro and Philipp Kohlscreiber. Without embardo had never prevailed against a top ten.
In the press conference after the game happy notoramiente Uruguayan was very pleased with the victory and said it was one of the most important of his career, also said he was surprised with the cry of "Uruguay, Uruguay" in tie-break and what full of emotion. Anyway, he underlined that it is thinking about the next game and that will be important to remain calm. Just
next party will be Monday before the current French Gilles Simon 27 of the world coming to beat Rainer Schuettler 6-4 6-3 in the previous round. It will be another high-level rival to win the Salta will have to keep very focused.
It is unclear whether the party will be on ESPN, will have to wait to order game coming out today about 18 hours.
In doubles, Pablo near Granollers fell yesterday against Isner and Querrey 6-4 4-6 7-10.
Following is a summary of the match between Andy Roddick and Cuevas.
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