Semis Update

Hello everyone, hope you enjoyed the day off from the blog.  Due to prior commitments (in a college tournament myself), I had to take the day off form the blog yesterday.  The biggest news I missed was probably Roddick going down to Soderling.  As I said, if Soderling gets hot, he can beat anyone.  Roddick's struggles continue, his big serve, and punishing forehand that started a new generation of player and rackets, now seems ordinary.  By no means is he "bad" now or "lost it", I think everyone else just caught up.  Part of the whole Roddick puzzle when he first burst on the scene, was that he played a little different than everyone, served a little harder.  Now, everyone has a monster serve, modern day grinders can juice it up in the 130s now.  This led to people developing a rock solid game plan against Roddick, and God bless him he's still top 10, but seems to be losing a lot lately.

Now the scores...I'm skipping the quarters, but your more than welcome to check out all the scores, as usual, right HERE.

LYON: Fed beat Lopez 3 and 2, and Nalbandian beat Del Potro 4 and 4.  

SETUP Fed/Nalbandian final.  So lets all face it, this match was up was a lot cooler when a few things were different...

-Fed was unbeatable

-Nalbandian seemed to beat Fed every time

-No one else could touch Fed.

Since then, things have changed, time has made Fed human(or somewhat), Nalbandian has a losing record against Fed (8-9)...and a little guy named Rafa has burst on the scene.

Prediction:  I have a thing for guys almost losing and then winning a tournament.  Nalbandian had his big 3 set scare, I'm picking the upset 7-5, 6-3 Nalbandian over Fed, evening the record to 9-9.

St Petersburg,

Murray beat Verdasco 0 and 3, Golubev (who?) beat Hanescu 3 and 0.

So Murray wins two tournaments in a row.  I don't see him having much trouble with the 150Th ranked Golubev.

LYON: Benneteau beat Tsonga 6 AND 5, Soderling beat Simon 3 in the third.

Firstly, it's sad Simon lost, but even sadder his streak of 3 setters ended in the quarters, Oh well, he backed it up with another one today.

Final: Benneteau/ Soderling  both guys have had unreal tournaments, I'm going to give the edge to Soderling because of the serve.  I say he wins it 4 and 6.  

That's all for today, we'll see how all these finals play out and how right (or wrong) I was on my predictions.