L8 in Hamburg

After straights win for the "Big three" they were underway for their 3rd Round. Also in action today n°4 and 5 in the South African Airways ATP Rankings Davydenko and Ferrer and formers n°1 Safin and Moya.

David Ferrer the n°5 in the world in the ATP rankings will try to reach the QF like in Monte-Carlo. He was playing against his compatriot Fernando Verdasco. The match was very intense especially in the first set. Verdasco was playing some exiting tennis to break his opponents serve 3 times. But with a lot of games going into Deuce, they had to decide the first in a tie-break. Verdasco got the best of it and after a 7 pts to 4 win in the tie-break he had to save 6 break point to finalize his win in a 7-6 6-2 victory in over 2hrs.

Local hero Nicolas Kiefer was newt on stage facing Nikolai Davydenko. The German did the same thing than in his previous match, getting the break of serve just before a tie-break, and in the second set he focused on his serve and eventually in the 8th game get the ultimate break of serve and went through to the QF here in Hamburg with a victory over another Top 10 player 7-5 6-3.

Then World n°1 Roger Federer was taking the Center court for his match against Robin Soderling who beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Federer didn't spend to much time to beat his Swedish opponent as in just over 1h, Federer was through to the Quarters with a 6-3 6-2 victory.

Novak Djokovic was playing the Giant Croat Ivo Karlovic. Even with an early break of serve Djokovic seemed stressed and got broke and would have loose the first set, but a good reaction from him and a couples of unforced error from Karlovic in the tie-break, gave the first set to Novak. Then it was no big trouble to finish the match with a 7-6 6-3 victory.

No. 2 and last year's finalist Rafael Nadal needed one hour and 18 minutes to defeat No. 15 seed Andy Murray 6-3, 6-2. The 21-year-old Spaniard converted five of eight break points while losing serve once. After breaking twice in the opening set, Nadal was broken in the first game of the second set. He then reeled off four straight games to take control and cruise to his third career victory in as many meetings over the British No. 1.