Po znakomitym Ao Verdasco wciąż odpoczywa.
Nando nie zagra w Dubaju, wycofał się także z 1 rundy Pucharu Davisa.

http://www.marca.com/2009/02/19/tenis/1235040333.html

#1) Valencia 2004
R32      Albert Portas (ESP)  6-1, 6-4
R16     Ivan Ljubicic (CRO) 6-4, 6-4
Q     David Ferrer (ESP)  6-2, 6-3
S     Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) 6-2, 6-1
W     Albert Montanes (ESP)  7-6(5), 6-3

#2) Umag 2008
R32      Bye      
R16     Mathieu Montcourt (FRA) 7-6(5), 6-1
Q     Mischa Zverev (GER) 7-5, 7-5
S     Fabio Fognini (ITA)     6-1, 6-3
W     Igor Andreev (RUS)  3-6, 6-4, 7-6(4)

Aktualizacja.

Jednak operacja przełożona. Z urazem można grać, a Nando chce poświęcić się rywalizacji o Londyn, skoro gra tak znakomity sezon:

Verdasco postpones surgery

Fernando Verdasco has postponed foot surgery to attempt to qualify for the Masters Cup.
Verdasco was told after the US Open that he needed to go under the knife to cure a persistent foot problem. As a result he pulled out of Spain’s Davis Cup semi-final with Israel but Verdasco has now backtracked on his plans.

After the best twelve months of his career, Verdasco has decided to put the injury to one side and try to qualify for the Masters Cup in London. After making the semis of the Australian Open and the quarters of the US Open, Verdasco currently lies ninth in the rankings, just outside the top eight. However there’s still all to play for and the various mathematical permutations continue right into the final week, traditionally the Paris Masters.
Verdasco may also be hoping to help Spain defend their Davis Cup crown against Czech Republic in December.

He said, “The doctor told me that I can postpone the surgery as it would not affect me. But when I went home to Spain, my doctor told me I will need three weeks to recuperate. If I had it done, I would not be able to make it here for the Malaysian Open. The doctor also told me that I can postpone the surgery as it would not affect me. My focus is to qualify for the World Finals and help Spain win the Davis Cup.”

Verdasco is currently in Kuala Lumpur where he is seeded second for this week’s Malaysian Open.

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Verdasco narzeka na kalendarz ATP.

Male tennis players bid for more time off from busy schedule

SPANISH ace Fernando Verdasco's plight is why the world's top male tennis players are fighting for more holidays.

Verdasco had only 10 days' rest after the Davis Cup final early last month before starting preparations for the Australian Open.

World No 3 Novak Djokovic, a member of the ATP Player Council with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, said the rest and recreation issue would be raised again during the Open, which starts next week.

Djokovic, who played the most matches of any player last year, said there should be a minimum eight-week break before starting tournaments again.

"We have to have at least two months minimum, considering the season we're playing, the amount of matches and the level we're playing," Djokovic said yesterday as he prepared for today's start of the eight-man AAMI Classic at Kooyong.

"We'll have some talks here in Australia and try to work towards the next couple of months and make it better."

The women's tour last year allocated an off-season of 8-10 weeks for the first time, playing its tour-ending championship in the last week of October. But the men are still battling for more time off.

"The schedule is our main priority. It takes time, it's not something that happens overnight. It's not just about players, it's about tournaments, about sponsors, all these things," Djokovic said.

"So it's the organisations that unite tournaments and players and we have to take both positions. But we're trying to fight for the players' rights and I think it's very important that people understand how we feel."

Verdasco, the world No. 9, headed to Las Vegas after Spain's Davis Cup triumph for intensive fitness work under Gil Reyes who helped steer Andre Agassi to four Australian Open crowns.

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Fernando Verdasco believes his game will peak at Melbourne Park

FRESH from claiming the Kooyong Classic on Saturday, Fernando Verdasco served notice of further improvement to come during the Australian Open, saying he was yet to reach his peak.

The Spanish star, who fell in a remarkable semi-final to Rafael Nadal at last year's Open, continued his outstanding early-season form by adding France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to the scalps of Novak Djokovic and Fernando Gonzalez at Kooyong.

While Verdasco swept Kooyong without dropping a set, the left-hander is confident his best tennis will be played over the next fortnight.

"I'm not 100 per cent, but maybe I'm 90 per cent," Verdasco said.

"I think that with the rhythm of the matches, I'll be a hundred per cent during the tournament.

"I was working really hard in the gym during two weeks in Las Vegas and these three matches, and all the practice I had the last week, playing a lot of sets, was to make the next step and to have my physical condition the best as possible for the Open."

But while the world No 9 was in ominous form last week, he faces a daunting draw at Melbourne Park in his bid to achieve a grand slam breakthrough.

He opens against Australian Carsten Ball, a big-serving left-hander who John McEnroe last week warned was a player on the rise and capable of beating the world's best.

Former world No 1 Juan-Carlos Ferrero awaits in the third round, although there is some doubt about his participation after he injured an ankle in Auckland last week.

A round-of-16 clash against Nikolay Davydenko, the form player of the tour, looms as a likely clash and, should the Spaniard negotiate that path, he would then play Roger Federer in a quarter-final.

"It's a tough draw starting with one guy that is going to have a whole lot of people supporting him, you know, all the country," Verdasco said.

"I think (Juan Carlos Ferrero) didn't know if he was able to play, or not, but I think he's going to be able to play, and if he plays he's going to be a very tough player. Then, you know, in fourth round, Davydenko, may be the guy in (the best) shape right now.

"(But) when you are looking to win the tournament, when you come to one grand slam looking with a goal to win the grand slam you don't need to really look, you know, to the semis or final. You really need to go match by match and just try to feel and play the best as possible every day, and don't think about who are you playing in 10 days. I will think about Tuesday, and then if I win, Thursday, and so on."

Verdasco, though, has reason to be confident. The left-hander handled the windy conditions at Kooyong better than his rivals -- a complication he says would have beaten him three years ago.

"The forehand, the backhand, everything, I'm feeling really good," Verdasco said.

Verdasco's form is not the only pointer to success at the Open. Players competing in the Kooyong event traditionally fare well at Melbourne Park, with Andre Agassi successfully carrying his form across town to claim the Classic-Open double three times last decade.

Roger Federer, while not always successful at Kooyong when fine-tuning his game, has also used it as a springboard to the semi-finals or better in the past five years before withdrawing from the 2010 event given his new duties as a father.

The Agassi link is important. It was the American who urged Verdasco to play at Kooyong last year after the pair joined forces in Las Vegas in December 2008.

The Spaniard, who again trained with Agassi's fitness adviser, Gil Reyes, in Nevada in December, credited the American early last week with helping him emerge as a serious contender in the past 12 months.

"He was with Steffi and the kids, like last year, with, you know, staying Christmas in the mountains, and he came just like three days before I came to Australia so we had the chance at least to be talking a lot for these days and he was giving me, like the year before a lot of, you know, thoughts and experience that he had here in Australia," Verdasco said.

"It's the grand slam that he felt better at, so he had unbelievable memories from here and he's trying to teach me a lot from that. So everything is so important. All three are so important for me."

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Wywiad po przegranym meczu IV r. AO10:

Q. Two sets to love down. How hard is it to come back from that situation?

FERNANDO VERDASCO: So hard. It's very difficult to come back always when the match is like this.

But you don't need to think about that. If you think that, you have even more difficult situation. You must just try to keep playing and don't think about that you are like this, no, that you were two sets to love.

You need to keep trying and trying all the time and don't think too much about the other things.

Q. Did you think you had the game of the match when you were two sets all?

FERNANDO VERDASCO: You know, at the beginning of the fifth set, he looks like more tired than all the match before, all the sets before. But, you know, he really stayed there all the time. He serve good in one game with 30‑All. I made unbelievable return forehand so hard, and he touch the ball back and put the ball just to the line.

You know, it was ‑‑ I know that ‑‑ I think that the beginning of the fifth set I could have my chance, no, to maybe break him and take the advantage in the fifth set. Maybe he start to make more mistakes. You never know, no? But he really stay there in the fifth set, even though he was looking more tired than usual and making more mistakes.

Both of us was tired, no? It was hot out there, and it was a long match. So we both run a lot, so it was hard for both, no, to stay physically the same in the fifth set.

Q. Are you playing as well as this time last year when you had the five setter with Nadal?

FERNANDO VERDASCO: No, I think I played much better today. It was different, no? It was semifinals, and today was fourth round. Today was the first day with a really tough player, no? Last year I was already with Murray and Tsonga playing before Nadal.

With Nadal I played much better than with Murray in fourth round. So I think that in this tournaments you are getting better and better every match.

Today I start playing much worse than I played, for example, in the third or in the fourth. But in the fifth, my legs was not going the same, also his.

I was not able to play the same like maybe in the third or fourth set.

Q. Do you think he's looming as a potential champion? Is he playing good enough tennis?

FERNANDO VERDASCO: I think it's a tough question, because I think that in five sets players like Rafa or Federer, they have more chances, no? I think that he need to beat Federer, for example, that normally if Federer wins Hewitt tonight it's gonna be quarterfinals. I think he must play unbelievable to beat Federer in five sets.

I think that Federer and Nadal in five sets are better than the rest. That's why they always normally win all the Grand Slams. Davydenko, Murray and the guys just behind them, I think they're not that level. Maybe they can beat them, but it's tough, no? They had more experience, no, in tough matches. Nadal, for example, in finals in Wimbledon, Roland Garros, many times. It's tough.

And Davydenko is, for example, like I was saying in the fifth set and fourth set he was looking more tired and making more mistakes. But today when I was like deuce in the beginning of the fifth set, he serve very good. Or when I was with any chance, no, he came back and he was out of the tough situation really good.

I think with players like Federer or Nadal, he will ‑‑ I don't know. If I need to bet, I will bet more for Federer in five sets, or for Rafa to win the tournament.

But you never know. Davydenko is also playing very good.

Q. What do you need to do to get to that level of Rafa and Roger?

FERNANDO VERDASCO: Think it's experience, no? Today was a tough match. I came back from two sets to love and I was playing much better. But, you know, I was not able to make the break at the beginning of the fifth set, take advance, and maybe break his game a little bit more, no?

So if I was able to make the break at the beginning of the fifth set, maybe he's supposed to go for something more and he start to even make more mistakes than he was doing at the time. But I couldn't do it, and he stays very good on the fifth set.

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#3 New Haven 2009



R64    Bye        
R32    Paul Capdeville (CHI) 6-0, 6-3   
R16    Andreas Seppi (ITA) 7-6(3), 6-2   
Q    Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 6-3, 6-1   
S    Igor Andreev (RUS) 7-6(4), 7-6(5)   
W    Sam Querrey (USA) 6-4, 7-6(6)

#4 San Jose 2010



R32    Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-3   
R16    Benjamin Becker (GER) 7-5, 6-2   
Q    Ricardas Berankis (LTU) 6-3, 7-6(5)   
S    Denis Istomin (UZB) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4   
W    Andy Roddick (USA) 3-6, 6-4, 6-4

Verdasco przełamał niekorzystną serię kolejnych porażek w starciach z zawodnikami z Top-10. Nando do niedzielnego wieczoru przegrał 15 ostatnich spotkań z zawodnikami z topu. Z Roddickiem wygrał pierwszy raz od 8 spotkań. Ostatni raz pokonał Amerykanina w 2006 roku.

Wiem, że gra przeciwko zawodnikom z czołowej dziesiątki to gwarancja trudnych meczów. W ostatnim sezonie wielokrotnie jednak byłem bardzo blisko. Mam nadzieję, że to zwycięstwo z Andym doda mi niezbędnej pewności siebie. Cieszę się, że udało mi się Go tutaj pokonać.- powiedział Hiszpan.

17.04.2010 - pierwszy finał Masters w wykonaniu Verdasco (0-6 1-6 z Nadalem).

Ostatnio edytowany przez COA (25-04-2010 22:46:26)

Verdasco najlepszy w Barcelonie

Fernando Verdasco triumfował w finale turnieju Barcelona Open (z pulą nagród 1 995 000 tys. euro). W finałowym meczu, stojącym na bardzo wysokim poziomie Verdasco pokonał rozstawionego z dwójką Szweda Robina Soderlinga.
26-letni Verdasco znajduje się w wyśmienitej dyspozycji, osiągając finał ubiegłotygodniowego turnieju ATP Masters 1000 w Monte Carlo (porażka z Nadalem) i zwycięstwie w niedzielnym finale w Barcelonie (ATP 500).

W meczu finałowym Verdasco, który wyeliminował w ćwierćfinale Ernesta Gulbisa (6-2 7-6) i w półfinale swojego rodaka Davida Ferrera ( 6-7 7-5 6-1) zmierzył się z rozstawionym z numerem drugim Robinem Soderlingem (zwycięstwo w ćwierćfinale i półfinale kolejno z: Eduardo Schwankem i Thiemo De Bakkerem).

Legitymujący się nie zbyt imponującym rekordem w pojedynkach ze Szwedem Verdasco (1-4) rozpoczął mecz bardzo dobrze. Rozstawiony z piątką Hiszpan po dwóch breakach, w siódmym i dziewiątym gemie seta otwarcia, wyszedł na prowadzenie w meczu.

Odpowiedź Soderlinga była natychmiastowa- break w pierwszym gemie drugiego seta. Pomimo re-breaka ze strony Verdasco, Szwed konsekwentnie grał swój tenis przełamując po raz drugi w spotkaniu Hiszpana, wychodząc na prowadzenie 4-3, wygrywając drugiego seta i wyrównując wynik meczu na 1-1.

W decydującym secie, w czwartym gemie nastąpił rozstrzygający losy całego spotkania break. Verdasco ani przez moment nie ukazujący zdenerwowania po wygranym secie przez Soderlinga, przełamał Szweda, który wyrzucił piłkę daleko w aut. Po świetnym gemie serwisowym Verdasco zakończył mecz, zwyciężając po dwóch godzinach i czterech minutach gry.

„Zawsze marzyłem, żeby tu sięgnąć po tytuł.” – powiedział po meczu triumfator. „ Dorastałem oglądając ten turniej w telewizji. To jest niesamowite uczucie, ciężko wyrazić je słowami. To mój drugi tytuł wywalczony w Hiszpanii i pierwszy tytuł ATP 500. Przez ostatnie dwa tygodnie, poprzez finał w Monte Carlo i zwycięstwo tutaj w Barcelonie wygrałem 1000 punktów. To może najlepszy moment w mojej karierze.”

„Nie zbyt dobrze zacząłem. Nie najlepiej czułem dziś piłkę, co powodowało, że byłem za pasywny i nie wystarczająco agresywny. Po pierwszym secie grałem dużo lepiej, ale jedna zła gra w trzecim secie z kilkoma błędami backhandowymi kosztowała mnie zwycięstwo w meczu.”- powiedział Szwed.
I dodał: „Verdasco grał naprawdę bardzo dobrze. Gra z dużą pewnością siebie, z ostatnich dwóch tygodni. Jest wspaniałym zawodnikiem i będzie ciężko go pokonać w ciągu następnych kilku tygodni.”

Verdasco za zwycięstwo otrzymał 286 tys. euro oraz 500 punktów rankingowych, natomiast przegrany Soderling zarobił 144 tys. euro i 300 punktów rankingowych.

Wynik finału:
Verdasco F. (Hiszpania, 5) – Soderling R. (Szwecja, 2) 6-3 4-6 6-3

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