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7/18/09 7:37 PM | Ricky Dimon
Juan Monaco crushes Tommy Robredo in straight sets on Saturday afternoon in Bastad. Monaco will face Sweden's own Robin Soderling, the No. 2 seed, in Sunday's title match.
Juan Monaco sprinted into the final of the Catella Swedish Open on Saturday, clobbering Tommy Robredo 6-0, 6-2 in just one hour and four minutes. Monaco is now 3-2 lifetime against Robredo, having most recently defeated the Spaniard earlier this season at the Masters Series Monte-Carlo, also in straight sets.
While their previous encounter was routine for Monaco, he won this one even more convincingly. The 61st-ranked Argentine did not lose a single game in the first set, breaking serve in the first, third, and fifth games of the match. Monaco put in 14 of 15 first serves in the opening frame of play and lost only three points in three service games.
Robredo finally got on the scoreboard with a break early in the second set, but that only put him back on serve and the success was short-lived. The world No. 16 added just one more game the rest of the way, finally holding serve once (Robredo held just once in seven service games).
Monaco is through to his second clay-court ATP final of the season; he lost to Robredo in a third-set tiebreaker to just barely miss out on winning the Buenos Aires title. On Sunday he will take on No. 2 seed and Swedish favorite Robin Soderling, a straight-set winner over Andreas Vinciguerra.
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