ROTTERDAM: Juan Martin del Potro mowed down a surprisingly listless Tomas Berdych 6-3, 6-1 to reach the final of the Rotterdam Open on Saturday. The Argentine third seed needed just an hour and a quarter as he handed Berdych a first defeat indoors this season, following an eight-game winning run for the Czech that included this month’s Montpellier trophy.
Berdych barely registered in the match, which takes Del Potro into a final against either top seed Roger Federer or unseeded Russian Nikolay Davydenko.
Del Potro, who beat Federer for the 2009 US Open title before falling victim to the wrist injury that kept him out for a year, never let Berdych into the one-way match. “I played almost perfect,” said Del Potro, who has lost just five games in his last two matches. (Agencies)