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Berdych, Malisse in Chennai Open semis

Updated on: 08 January,2011 07:17 AM IST  | 
AFP |

Top seed Tomas Berdych, despite struggling with his serve, had enough firepower to knock out unfancied Blaz Kavcic 6-3, 6-3, to enter the semi-finals of the ATP Chennai Open tennis tournament yesterday

Berdych, Malisse in Chennai Open semis

Top seed Tomas Berdych, despite struggling with his serve, had enough firepower to knock out unfancied Blaz Kavcic 6-3, 6-3, to enter the semi-finals of the ATP Chennai Open tennis tournament yesterday.


Tomas Berdych

Berdych, World No 6 and 2010 Wimbledon finalist, was rather patchy against Slovenian Kavcic who has never beaten a player ranked higher than himself (112).

On the outside court, Xavier Malisse, the seventh seeded Belgian, extended his hold on Bjorn Phau from Germany with a 6-0, 6-2 win in 71 minutes that witnessed long baseline rallies. He too moved into the penultimate round.




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