Robredo, Murray to meet in Metz final

Metz, France (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo and third-seeded Brit Andy Murray will meet in the final at the Open de Moselle indoor tennis event after each won semifinal matches.
Robredo beat Frenchman Nicolas Mahut, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4; while Murray got by second-seeded Argentine Guillermo Canas, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4.
In Beijing last month, Robredo reached his 11th career final, falling to Chilean Fernando Gonzalez.
Robredo won a title in Sopot earlier this year and will go after his sixth career championship on Sunday. He won the only prior meeting with Murray, in straight sets in Las Vegas a year ago.
Murray had a great start to his season, reaching the semifinals or better at five of his first six tournaments. However, a wrist injury suffered in Hamburg in May put him out of action for almost three months, He won a title in San Jose earlier this year, the second of his career.

Robredo, Canas, Murray charge into Metz semis

Metz, France (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo, second-seeded Argentine Guillermo Canas and third-seeded Brit Andy Murray led the charge into the semifinals at the $500,000 Open de Moselle indoor tennis event.
Robredo rolled past veteran French crowd favorite Sebastien Grosjean 6-4, 6-4 in 1 hour, 24 minutes. The Spaniard will meet another Frenchman, Nicolas Mahut, in Saturday's semis.
Canas handled 19-year-old Russian qualifier Evgeny Korolev 6-1, 6-4, while Murray mauled Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 6-3 on the hardcourt at Les Arenes. Canas dropped just three points on his first serve against the promising Korolev.
The gritty Canas and talented Murray will face-off in the other semifinal here.
One other quarterfinal bout saw the aforementioned Mahut oust eighth-seeded Russian Igor Andreev in come-from-behind fashion, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-1).

Robredo falls in Kitzbuhel quarters

Kitzbuhel, Austria (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo was upended by fifth-seeded Argentine Juan Monaco in Friday's quarterfinal action at the $1.085 million Austrian Open.
Monaco dismissed the world No. 7 Robredo in 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 fashion on the red clay at Casino Stadion. Monaco improved to 2-14 in his career against top-10 competition.
Meanwhile, sixth-seeded and defending champion Agustin Calleri avoided an upset by handling 2001 Kitzbuhel titlist Nicolas Lapentti of Ecuador 7-6 (7-5), 6-1. Lapentti was the 15th seed this week.
Calleri beat Juan Ignacio Chela in last year's all-Argentine finale here.
In other round-of-eight play, 10th-seeded Potito Starace overcame fellow Italian Andreas Seppi 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (9-7) and 11th-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco held off Argentine Sergio Roitman 7-6 (8-6), 3-6, 6-3. Verdasco reached the Kitzbuhel final in 2005, while Seppi was a finalist in Gstaad just two weeks ago.
Saturday's semifinals will pit Calleri against Starace and Monaco versus Verdasco. Wins by Calleri and Monaco would produce an all-Argentine finale on Sunday.

Robredo, Calleri win; Youzhny, Ferrero fall in Kitzbuhel

Kitzbuhel, Austria (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo and reigning champion Agustin Calleri notched second-round wins, while second- seeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny and third-seeded Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero came up losers at $1.085 million Austrian Open.
Robredo handled Argentine Juan-Pablo Guzman 6-1, 6-4, while a sixth-seeded Calleri topped Austrian qualifier Rainer Eitzinger 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) on the red clay at Casino Stadion. Calleri beat Juan Ignacio Chela in last year's all- Argentine finale here.
A fourth-seeded Chela snuck past Austrian wild card Daniel Koellerer 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Day 3.
Meanwhile, Youzhny succumbed to Austrian crowd favorite Alexander Peya 7-5, 6-0, while the former world No. 1 and 2002 Kitzbuhel runner-up Ferrero gave way to improving Italian Andreas Seppi 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 6-2. Seppi was a runner-up in Gstaad earlier this month.
Fifth-seeded Argentine Juan Monaco moved on by outlasting his countryman Mariano Zabaleta 6-1, 2-6, 6-3.
Seventh-seeded Spaniard Nicolas Almagro reached the third round by besting his countryman Ivan Navarro Pastor 7-5, 6-3, while eighth-seeded German Florian Mayer mauled Argentine Martin Vassallo Arguello 6-1, 6-3. Almagro reached a final in Sweden just two weeks ago.
In other second-round play involving top-10 seeds, No. 9 German Philipp Kohlschreiber doused Chilean Paul Capdeville 6-4, 6-1 and No. 10 Italian Potito Starace stopped Belgian qualifier Christophe Rochus 6-2, 6-2.
Other seeded second-round winners were No. 11 Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, No. 14 Russian Igor Andreev and No. 15 Nicolas Lapentti of Ecuador. Lapentti titled here back in 2001, while Verdasco was a finalist in 2005.
More upsets came when Argentine Diego Hartfield overcame 12th-seeded Spaniard Oscar Hernandez 5-7, 6-0, 6-3, Argentine Sergio Roitman knocked out 13th- seeded Chilean Nicolas Massu 7-5, 6-2 and Italian qualifier Fabio Fognini came back to bounce No. 16 Austrian Werner Eschauer, last week's runner-up at the Dutch Open. Fognini saved a match point here on Day 3. Massu titled here in 2004 and was the runner-up in 2003.
The first round concluded early on Wednesday, with victories coming for Guzman, Zabaleta, Roitman, Vassallo Arguello and French qualifier Laurent Recouderc.

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.