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- Defending champion Ding out of Wales Open
- Top seed Raonic to face Haas in San Jose ATP final
- Nadal struggles into Brazil Open final
| Defending champion Ding out of Wales Open Posted: 16 Feb 2013 06:41 PM PST NEWPORT, United Kingdom: Defending champion Ding Junhui of China was knocked out of the Welsh Open on Saturday when England's Stuart Bingham captured their semi-final 6-5. Bingham came back from 4-5 down to claim victory with breaks of 93 and 108 and will face Stephen Maguire of Scotland, who beat Judd Trump 6-4, in Sunday's best of 17-frame final. "I didn't play as well as I did in other matches this week and I had some bad shot selection," admitted Ding. "I missed key shots to win frames and Stuart just took his chances. Those misses were stupid, like that easy red to the middle in the sixth frame. The blue in the last frame was quite close to the cue ball so it was difficult to see the angle. "Stuart is a good player. His safety was good and he played better than me today - when I missed balls he scored heavily."-AFP | ||
| Top seed Raonic to face Haas in San Jose ATP final Posted: 16 Feb 2013 06:39 PM PST SAN JOSE, California: Two-time defending champion Milos Raonic of Canada fired 12 aces in beating US third seed Sam Querrey 6-4, 6-2 on Saturday to reach the final of the $547,000 ATP Tour SAP Open. The big-serving top seed will try to become the first player since Tony Trabert in 1953-1955 to win the San Jose title three years in a row when he faces German fourth seed Tommy Haas in Sunday's indoor hardcourt final. Haas, ranked 22nd, defeated US second seed John Isner 6-3, 6-4 in the other semi-final. Raonic, 22, and Haas, 34, will face each other for the first time in what will be the final match in the history of the event, which will be dropped from the ATP schedule after this year. Querrey had won both prior matches against Raonic, including last year at Wimbledon, but the World No. 13 dropped only five points on his serve in the match and never faced a breakpoint in overwhelming the American this time. Haas fired eight aces and connected on 75 percent of his first serves while Isner, known for his big serves, had nine aces but connected on only 59 percent of his first serves. Haas lost three of his four prior matches against Isner but they had not faced each other since 2009.-AFP | ||
| Nadal struggles into Brazil Open final Posted: 16 Feb 2013 05:27 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]SAO PAULO: Rafael Nadal struggled into the Brazil Open final on Saturday by downing Argentine lucky loser Martin Alund in three sets and later said he was handicapped by nagging knee pain. 
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