03/03/2007 - Las Vegas, NV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Second-seeded Lleyton Hewitt and third- seeded Marat Safin cruised in the their quarterfinal matches on Friday and will meet in the semifinals at the $416,000 Tennis Channel Open.
Hewitt had no trouble ousting Spaniard Feliciano Lopez as the Aussie breezed to a 6-3, 6-2 victory. Safin, meanwhile, had no problems with fifth-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, winning 6-1, 6-4.
Hewitt won this event in 2000 and 2003 when it was held in Scottsdale and was last year's Las Vegas runner-up to James Blake, who did not compete in Friday's quarters following a rules mishap here on Thursday.
An incorrect variation of ATP rules resulted in the erroneous passage of Blake into the quarterfinals here on Thursday, and according to the rules, Russian Evgeny Korolev advanced instead of Blake.
Korolev made the most of his opportunity on Day 6 as he knocked out American and fellow unseeded 19-year-old Sam Querrey 6-4, 6-4 to reach the final four. Korolev, who saved 10-of-11 break points to top his big-serving counterpart, will square off with Jurgen Melzer in the other semifinal match.
The fourth-seeded Aussie needed three sets to advance past Czech Jan Hernych, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.
Blake had advanced after ATP chairman and president Etienne de Villiers had been called in to discuss a controversial end to the Blake-Korolev-Juan Martin del Potro round-robin group. Blake needed to complete his match, beat del Potro in straight sets and concede five games or less. Blake was leading 6-1, 3-1 when del Potro retired from the match with breathing problems on Thursday.
The relevant rule states that an incomplete match shall not count as a match played for the retiring player. This eliminated del Potro based on the tiebreak procedure for greatest number of completed matches and left only Blake and Korolev tied with 1-1 records. Therefore, under ATP rules, Korolev should have advanced having beaten Blake in their round-robin bout.
This Las Vegas event featured a 32-player round-robin, which consisted of a 16-player "play-off" where eight winners joined 16 other players to make-up eight groups of three players. Each player played two matches in the round-robin stage, with the winner from each group advancing to the quarters, where the tournament is now being played out per a traditional single-elimination format.
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