Ferrer advances, Moya ousted at Swedish Open

Bastad, Sweden (Sports Network) - Second-seeded Spaniard David Ferrer and fellow countryman Nicolas Almagro advanced to the Swedish Open final with semifinal wins on Saturday.
Ferrer needed just over an hour to cruise past fifth-seeded Italian Filippo Volandri, 6-2, 6-1, while Almagro defeated fourth-seeded countryman Carlos Moya, 6-3, 1-6, 6-2, on the clay court.
After splitting the first two sets, Almagro broke Moya in the second game of the third set and jumped out to a 4-1 lead. Moya, the 2002 champion at this event, missed out on a break point in the seventh game that would have drawn him within 4-3, but Almagro held and broke Moya for the win.
Both players have won a title this year. Ferrer, though, owns three career titles compared to just two for Almagro.
Sunday will mark the third meeting between these two players. Ferrer, the 15th-ranked player in the world, won both, which came on hard courts.

Almagro is the 37th ranked player in the world.

Horna ousts Robredo in Sweden

Bastad, Sweden (Sports Network) - Peru's Luis Horna upended top-seeded and defending champion Tommy Robredo in Monday's first-round action at the clay- court Swedish Open.

Horna humbled the Spanish Robredo in 6-1, 1-6, 6-1 fashion at Bastad Tennis Stadium. Robredo, seeded second here last year, bested Russian star Nikolay Davydenko, the top seed in 2006, in last season's Bastad finale.

Another Day-1 upset came when quality Belgian Olivier Rochus drove out third- seeded Finn Jarkko Nieminen 6-4, 6-2.

Fourth-seeded Carlos Moya avoided the upset bug by leveling his fellow Spaniard Ivan Navarro Pastor 6-2, 6-4, while fifth-seeded Italian Filippo Volandri advanced by overcoming his countryman Federico Luzzi 4-6, 7-5, 6-1. The former world No. 1 Moya titled here back in 2002.

In other play, Spaniard Nicolas Almagro got past Swedish wild card Filip Prpic 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, Czech Lukas Dlouhy downed Swedish wild card Michael Ryderstedt 6-1, 6-4 and Chilean Nicolas Massu overcame Russian Evgeny Korolev 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. Dlouhy will face Rochus in the second round at this post-Wimbledon event.