Nadal becomes youngest (18y 11m) top five player since Chang/June 1989 (17y 3m). Coria to #6 if he wins tomorrow. Career high ranks for Nadal, Canas, Stepanek, Ferrer, Andreev.
Coria has made 6 finals of the last 8 clay MS. He joins Kuerten, Rios, Ferrero, Corretja, Becker, Chesnokov, and Costa as players to make the final in all three (Monte Carlo, Rome, Hamburg) since 1990. Only Kuerten and Rios have won all three; Coria has a chance tomorrow.
First ever finals rematch at consecutive clay MS since the series began in 1990.
1 (1) 6605 Federer, Roger 2 (2) 4160 Hewitt, Lleyton 3 (3) 3585 Roddick, Andy 4 (4) 3105 Safin, Marat 5 (7) 2450 Nadal, Rafael* 6 (5) 2370 Gaudio, Gaston 7 (9) 2270 Agassi, Andre 8 (11) 2265 Coria, Guillermo* 9 (6) 2155 Henman, Tim 10 (13) 1715 Canas, Guillermo 11 (10) 1685 Nalbandian, David 12 (12) 1655 Johansson, Joachim 13 (14) 1655 Ljubicic, Ivan 14 (8) 1555 Moya, Carlos 15 (17) 1420 Stepanek, Radek 16 (15) 1415 Robredo, Tommy 17 (25) 1345 Ferrer, David 18 (24) 1331 Hrbaty, Dominik 19 (18) 1320 Johansson, Thomas 20 (16) 1285 Davydenko, Nikolay 21 (19) 1255 Ancic, Mario 22 (22) 1245 Haas, Tommy 23 (20) 1240 Gonzalez, Fernando 24 (26) 1185 Youzhny, Mikhail 25 (21) 1175 Massu, Nicolas 26 (27) 1170 Lopez, Feliciano 27 (28) 1130 Grosjean, Sebastien 28 (23) 1115 Novak, Jiri 29 (30) 1100 Kiefer, Nicolas 30 (29) 1100 Dent, Taylor 31 (31) 1020 Volandri, Filippo 32 (36) 948 Malisse, Xavier 33 (34) 945 Srichaphan, Paradorn 34 (37) 939 Andreev, Igor 35 (35) 930 Melzer, Jurgen 36 (32) 925 Pavel, Andrei 37 (39) 925 Soderling, Robin 38 (38) 921 Rochus, Olivier 39 (42) 905 Ferrero, Juan Carlos 40 (45) 895 Chela, Juan Ignacio
"Hops" <kev8128nossssspam@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:qcqdnWyb84McZ9jbnZ2dnUVZ_gOdnZ2d@giganews.com...
Gonzalez leads Nadal 3-1 hth. The only Nadal win was last year in Rome
QF.
But the relevant H2H is clay which is 1:1. Gonzalez was pushed to 3 sets by Nadal way back in 2003. Nadal brushed Gonzalez aside in straight sets in 2006
