ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Seventh-seeded Ivan Ljubicic beat Marcos Baghdatis 6-4, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (4) Friday to reach the semifinals of the ABN World Tennis Tournament.
Ljubicic will play Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a semifinal on Saturday. The Frenchman progressed to the final four without hitting a ball when fourth-seeded Tomas Berdych withdrew from the tournament with flu symptoms.
But Ljubicic had to work hard to reach the semis for the fourth time in his career.
Ljubicic squandered a match point after making "a couple of costly mistakes in the second set tie break."
The deciding third set also went to a tie break, which Ljubicic won comfortably.
Top-seeded Robin Soderling was playing Mikhail Youzhny and Viktor Troicki was facing Marin Cilic in the evening quarterfinals.
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