Tennis: Fish, Isner set up title rematch
Fish beat Isner in the final a year ago.
ATLANTA:
Defending champion Mardy Fish and John Isner lined up a re-run of last year’s final at the ATP Atlanta Championships with decisive semi-final victories. Top-seed Fish won his eighth straight match at the venue as he schooled American teenager Ryan Harrison 6-2, 6-4. Isner, seeded third, will play his second final in as many tournaments after beating Luxmbourg’s Gilles Muller 7-5, 6-7, 6-1. Fish beat Isner in the final a year ago in a third-set tiebreaker played in heatwave conditions.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 25th, 2011.
Defending champion Mardy Fish and John Isner lined up a re-run of last year’s final at the ATP Atlanta Championships with decisive semi-final victories. Top-seed Fish won his eighth straight match at the venue as he schooled American teenager Ryan Harrison 6-2, 6-4. Isner, seeded third, will play his second final in as many tournaments after beating Luxmbourg’s Gilles Muller 7-5, 6-7, 6-1. Fish beat Isner in the final a year ago in a third-set tiebreaker played in heatwave conditions.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 25th, 2011.