By Ashley Williams
LONDON, England
(TheSportsNEXT) November 9, 2012: World number seven Juan Martin del Potro
of Argentine kept the ATP World Tour Finals Semi-Finals fight alive on Thursday
when he defeated world number nine Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia by 6-0 6-4 in 71
minutes at The O2 Arena in London.
Juan Martin del Potro, who has won one of his two matches at
the ATP World Tour Finals, will have to beat world number two Roger Federer of
Switzerland in his final round-robin match of the tournament on Saturday to
make sure he joins the Swiss into Semi-Finals of the event.
World number give David Ferrer of Spain had defeated Juan
Martin del Potro and now the Argentinean is in a must-win position and he would
take inspiration from his victory over Roger Federer last month in final of the
Basel Open 2012 last month.
Juan Martin del Potro looked completely a different player on
Thursday when compared with his previous outing at the ATP World Tour Finals
against David Ferrer as he never gave any window of opportunity to Janko
Tipsarevic who has already crashed out of the tournament after facing two
defeats in as many matches.
The big Argentinean, who is sixth seeded at the ATP World
Tour Finals where he ended as runner-up in 2009, smashed six aces and clinched
84 percent of his first serve points as he turned the Group B alive.
The Saturday’s matches will decide who is going to join
Roger Federer into semi-finals of the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals.
David Ferrer and Juan Martin del Potro both have got realistic chance of making
it into the last-four stage where the Spaniard is better placed as he is going
to face the weakest opponent in the tournament in shape of Janko Tipsarevic
while the Argentinean has his work cut out against the legendary Roger Federer.
Talking about his first victory at the current tournament,
Juan Martin del Potro told ATP, "I'm glad to beat Janko tonight. I play
much better than my first match here. A win in two sets gives me a chance to go
to the next match. I know if I want to beat Roger, I should play much better
than today and my first match."
With this victory, Juan Martin del Potro has surged to 4-0
lifetime record against Janko Tipsarevic and won his 64th match of
the year as against 16 defeats. He has also won four titles this season.
Janko Tipsarevic told ATP about what went wrong for him
against del Potro, “I wouldn't really blame my loss on the sickness. I am
generally feeling fine. The problem was that I was sick and I didn't play a lot
of tennis lately. I feel sorry that I don't play my best tennis here in London,
which is probably the best event of the year. But I fought hard to be in a
position to come to this event. I'll just do my best for one more match.”
Juan Martin del Potro had some support in the crowd at The O2
Arena where his fellow countryman footballer Sergio Aguero was there to buck
him up. Following the match, Juan Martin del Potro and Sergio Aguero, who
represented Manchester City in the English Premier League, exchanged some shots
at The O2 Arena court.
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