OEIRAS, Portugal (AP)?Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain defeated Kristina Barrois of Germany 6-1, 6-2 in the rain-delayed women?s final at the Estoril Open on Saturday and Juan Martin del Potro continued his comeback from a wrist injury to gain the men?s title match.
Medina Garrigues captured her 10th WTA crown after rain halted the clay-court match when she was leading 3-2 in the second set.
The break didn?t rattle the 61st-ranked Spaniard, who dropped just seven points on her first serve and broke her opponent six times to capture her ninth clay-court event.
?Anabel plays with such heavy spin and is such a great clay-court player, it was tough for me on every single point,? Barrois said.
Del Potro beat Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay 6-2, 7-6 (6) to reach his second final of the season, against Fernando Verdasco. The Spaniard was a set up and advanced when Milos Raonic of Canada withdrew with a back injury just after the start of the second set.
Del Potro is going for his ninth career title in his first clay-court event of the season after winning in Delray Beach in February in his comeback from wrist surgery last year.
The 2009 U.S. Open champion dropped only six points on his first serve and hit four aces, while Cuevas was unable to claim a single break chance against the fifth-seeded Argentine.
Del Potro broke Cuevas? serve twice in the first set, but failed on eight break chances in the second as his 65th-ranked opponent took it to a tiebreaker. Del Potro saved a set point before converting his first match point to dispatch Cuevas.
Verdasco?s lone break of the hard-serving Raonic was enough to secure the first set 6-4. The 12th-ranked Verdasco had previously lost to Raonic in the final at San Jose and in Memphis.
Both players were on court for the second time Saturday after rain then darkness had delayed their quarterfinals matches Friday. Verdasco rallied to beat Kevin Anderson of South Africa 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-3 and Raonic battled another rain delay to secure a 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-3 win over Gilles Simon of France.
Del Potro, currently No. 46, lost to Verdasco in San Jose when ranked No. 484.
Source: http://feeds.tennis.com/~r/tenniscom-news/~3/IyZ-NDq5UB8/
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