The fairy tale keeps on going. Brian Baker is back to an ATP tournament after 7 years (and 3 hip,1 elbow and 1 hernia surgeries) to defeat players such as Monfils and Davydenko to reach straight away a final against Almagro!
The American qualifier was 1 set down against the Russian to lose at the tiebreak. Then Brian managed to regroup to conquer both the 2nd and 3rd set to win the match 6-7 (5) 6-4 6-2 in 2h and 31 minutes.
Brian will play an inspired Almagro that demolished Simon 6-1 6-3 in 68 minutes. Almagro got to the final without dropping a set.
The winner will collect a 91.000USD check… but that’s not really important for Brian.
Good comeback!!!
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