NADAL MEETS DAVYDENKO IN BARCELONA SEMIS

Rafeal Nadal will meet Nikolay Davydenko in the coming semifinals in Barcelona Open. Nikolay Davydenko rallied for a 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-2 victory over Radek Stepanek on Friday to reach Semifinals against Rafeal. Nikolay Davydenko is the third seeded and he need to face the top seeded and the best player in clay court. Fourth seeded David Ferrer and Fernando Gonzalez of chile will meet in the other semifinals match. Davydenko is an excellent player of both backhand and forehand. He has excellent timing sense and very high energy level. He made slight mistakes in the quarterfinals and he is gaining to recover from it. He knows that if he makes mistakes in the upcoming semifinals against Rafeal, then he needs to pay for it.

Davydenko used strong returns to break twice more in the third to set up a meeting with the top-ranked Nadal.

The Spaniard is vying to follow up his fifth straight Monte Carlo Masters trophy with a fifth straight title at Barcelona.