Umag, Croatia (Sports Network) - Four-time winner Carlos Moya and another former champ, Guillermo Canas, were a pair of quarterfinal winners Friday at the $485,000 Croatia Open. Moya and Canas will do battle in Saturday's semifinals at this clay-court event.The sixth-seeded Moya upended his fourth-seeded fellow Spaniard David Ferrer 7-5, 6-4. The former world No. 1 and 1998 French Open titlist Moya titled here in 1996, 2001, 2002 and 2003 and was the runner-up in 2005. Ferrer reached the final here in 2004.
The fifth-seeded Argentine Canas, the 2004 Umag titlist, blew past Frenchman Gilles Simon 6-2, 6-1 on Day 5 at ITC Stella Maris.
In other quarterfinal action, veteran Romanian Andrei Pavel came from behind to bounce seventh-seeded Italian Filippo Volandri 1-6, 6-2, 6-3, while upstart Serbian qualifier Viktor Troicki landed in his first ATP semifinal by besting Argentine Carlos Berlocq 7-5, 6-2. Volandri was the back-to-back Umag runner- up in 2003 and 2004. Troicki stunned his top-seeded countryman Novak Djokovic here on Wednesday.
Pavel will battle Troicki in Saturday's other semi.
