David Ferrer thrashed Igor Sijsling of the Netherlands 6-0, 6-1 on Thursday to reach the semifinals of the Unicef Open grass-court tournament. The top-seeded Spaniard raced to a 6-0, 5-0 lead, before Sijsling finally won a game in front of his home crowd, closing out the match in just under 43 minutes.
The results:
At Eastbourne: Women: Quarterfinals: Marion Bartoli bt Lucie Safarova 6-4, 6-2; Klara Zakopalova bt Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 7-5.
Second round: Marion Bartoli bt Aleksandra Wozniak 6-2, 6-2; Angelique Kerber bt Chanelle Scheepers 6-3, 6-2; Lucie Safarova bt Heather Watson 7-6(5), 6-1; Klara Zakopalova bt Petra Cetkovska 6-1, 1-6, 6-2; Ekaterina Makarova bt Laura Robson 6-4, 7-5; Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova bt Christina McHale 7-5, 3-6, 6-4; Tsvetana Pironkova bt Stephanie Dubois 6-0, 4-6, 6-4.
Men: Second round: Denis Istomin bt Marcel Granollers 6-1, 4-6, 7-6(2); Andreas Seppi bt Carlos Berlocq 7-6(2), 6-3; Fabio Fognini bt Bernard Tomic 4-6, 6-3, 7-5; Steve Darcis bt Marcos Baghdatis 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; Ryan Harrison bt Lu Yen-Hsun 6-1, 7-6(2).
At Den Bosch: Men: Quarterfinals: Benoit Paire bt Tatsuma Ito 6-3, 7-5; David Ferrer bt Igor Sijsling 6-0, 6-1; Philipp Petzschner bt Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-4, 7-6(6); Xavier Malisse bt Gilles Muller 6-3, 4-6, 6-1.
Second round: Igor Sijsling bt Olivier Rochus 7-5, 7-6(4); Tatsuma Ito bt Jurgen Melzer 6-2, 6-2; Benoit Paire bt Lukasz Kubot 6-3, 0-6, 6-4; Edouard Roger-Vasselin bt Flavio Cipolla 6-2, 3-6, 6-1; Philipp Petzschner bt Mate Pavic retired; David Ferrer bt Leonardo Mayer 6-3, 6-1; Xavier Malisse bt Paolo Lorenzi 7-6(3), 6-2.
Women: Quarterfinals: Nadia Petrova bt Dominika Cibulkova 6-2, 6-0; Urszula Radwanska bt Sofia Arvidsson 6-2, 7-6(3).
Second round: Roberta Vinci bt Monica Niculescu 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-0; Kirsten Flipkens bt Daria Gavrilova 7-5, 7-6(4); Francesca Schiavone bt Irina Begu 6-2, 2-6, 7-6(8).
Keywords: Unicef Open grass-court tournament
