VERDASCO UP NEXT

Looking for his very first title of the season, world number seven tennis player Spain’s Fernando Verdasco will go one on one against world number twenty-nine Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka in a semi final match of the 2012 Abierto Mexicano Telcel that is one of the eleven ATP World Tour 500 events. Abierto Mexicano Telcel finished the 4 tournament “Golden Swing” through Latin America.

Fernando Verdaso, the former world number seven is looking for his 6th career win on ATP World Tour. Fernando grabbed two titles in the year 2010 and accordingly accomplished his career’s highest ranking of world number seven, but his progress was stopped by inconsistency and injuries. Fernando has an average 7 – 4 win – loss record for this season till now and he needs some good wins in his file got get his form back. Seeded 8th in this event, Verdasco topped his two-time champion and his compatriot Nicolas Almagro with a 6 – 4, 7 – 6 (5) win on Thursday and went into the semi-final of this ATP World Tour 500 championship.

Meanwhile, world number twenty-nine Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka is following his 4th ATP World Tour title. The Swiss master has a nice 7 – 4 win – loss record on tour this year. Stanislas Wawrinka got his career’s highest world ranking of world number nine in the year 2008 after showing some coherent results on tour. The Swiss ace has the ability to take a hop but he requirements to win a some titles to make his presence felt on ATP World Tour.

In head-to-head, both players are equally positioned at 1 – 1 against each other. Their last encounter was in Gstaad in 2005, where Wawrinka beat the the Spaniard in 3 gruelling sets. On Friday, we can anticipate same sort of fight.