Royal Final for Sunday, after 2 revenges !

This Saturday was the place for the exiting Semi-Final. Federer were looking forward to take his revenge against the young Serb player Novak Djokovic. While on the first match, revenge was in the air as this time it was the young Spanish Rafael Nadal who was trying to get over his defeat in the last Masters Series final in Miami against Russian Nikolai Davydenko.

Davydenko looked confident coming up to this match, and was getting a lot of ball back to Nadal but soon we could see that he was a bit tired with his recent matches. Even though Davydenko had a lot of break points opportunity, Nadal managed very well those points and won on a relatively easy score 6-3 6-2 but in 1h41. Davydenko didn't manage the important points well at all and the score line went very quick in his disfavour.

Nadal reached his fourth Monte-Carlo final without dropping a single set since the 2006 Final against Roger Federer.

The Swiss N°1 started his match facing 4 break points against Novak Djokovic, but produced a good tennis to make Djokovic breathless, at the point that after getting broke a 4-3 and leaving the first set to Federer 6-3, Djokovic called the trainer because of breath trouble and after the beginning of the second set while trailing 3-2 and a break down he decided to retire and gave Federer the opportunity to be in his 3rd Monte-Carlo final against Rafael Nadal.

It is the second time in less than a week that Federer win a match with the retirement of his opponent after the first set loss. Davydenko had to retire in last week final in Estoril.

The last time Federer and Nadal met in a final was in Wimbledon, it is the 11th final between both player and their 15th overall encounter. Nadal leads 6-4 in finals 8-6 overall and 6-1 on clay.