Match report

Nikolay Davydenko © Tennistalk.com
Orange Warsaw Open
Quarter final
6/13/08 1 2 Tot
ru  Nikolay Davydenko 6 6 2
ru  Evgeny Korolev 4 2 0
Evgeny Korolev © Tennistalk.com

  • Davydenko Romps Into Warsaw Semis

    6/14/08 2:37 AM | Ricky Dimon
    Nikolay Davydenko gets off to a slow start on Friday but storms back to crush Evgeny Korolev in straight sets. Awaiting in the semifinals is another unseeded opponent, Fabio Fognini.

    Nikolay Davydenko defeated fellow Russian Evgeny Korolev 6-4, 6-2 in one hour and 39 minutes on Friday afternoon to advance to the Warsaw semifinals. It will already be Davydenko's seventh semifinal appearance in 2008.

    The No. 4 player in the world came out slow, however, and got down 4-1 in the first set. That was just a one-break deficit and Davydenko promptly erased it by breaking Korolev twice. Davydenko won the last five games of the set to take the lead and break his opponent's spirit in the process.

    Korolev could not recover from the devastating change in momentum and he never got going in set two. Davydenko broke serve two more times and never came close to dropping his own serve ever since he lost it early in the opener. Korolev won just six return points in the second set, never sniffing a single break point even though the No. 1 seed served at just 43 percent.

    In the semifinals Davydenko will take on his fourth straight unseeded opponent in Fabio Fognini. The Italian upset fifth-seeded Guillermo Canas 7-5, 7-5. The stakes--a berth in the title match--are high for what will be their first-ever head-to-head meeting.

  • Thumbs up

    Utterly dominant performance by Davydenko after the slow start.

  • Thumbs down

    Korolev threw in seven double-faults.

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