The sixth-seed from Ecuador saved five match points to defeat Spanish teenager Rafael Nadal.
World number one Rafael Nadal charged into the quarter-finals of the rain-hit Monte Carlo Masters with a 6-3, 6-0 demolition of Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti on Friday. The four-times champion won his match held over from Thursday in 93 minutes and will next face Ivan Ljubicic, who dismissed Italian Simone Bolelli 7-5, 7-6.
Rafael Nadal guaranteed he would top the world rankings with a 7-6, 6-1 victory over Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti in the quarter-finals of the Cincinnati Masters.
Top seed Robin Soderling got off to a perfect start in front of his Swedish fans on Wednesday when he outclassed Ecuador's Giovanni Lapentti 6-3, 6-0.
The world No.1 crushed Ecuadorian baseliner Nicolas Lapentti in the second round.
Unseeded American Mardy Fish recorded a shock 6-4, 6-4 win over world number three and defending champion Andy Murray in front of a packed crowd in the Sony Ericsson Open second round on Saturday. Top seed Roger Federer then avoided Murray's fate with a 6-3, 6-3 victory in just over an hour over Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti in the late match.
Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and his Finnish partner Jarko Nieminin advanced to the second round of the men's doubles round at the Australian Open, defeating Spanish pair of Marcel Granollers and Sanitago Ventura 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 in Melbourne on Friday. It took Bopanna and Nieminin an hour and 13 minutes to dump their opponents.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna reached the men's doubles quarter-finals in the euro 713,000 Artois Championships in London without playing a single match. The eighth seeded Indian Davis Cuppers got a walkover in the second round, as their opponents, Chilean Fernando Gonzalez and Ecuadorean Nicolas Lapentti, opted out of the contest.
The Indo-Czech pair were defeated 6-7, 6-7 by second seeds Daniel Nestor and Zimonjic in the quarter-finals of the Cincinnati Masters.
The fifth seeds came back after losing the first set to down Giovanni and Nicolas Lapentti of Ecuador in the men's doubles at Wimbledon.
Top seeded Roddick beat Austria's Jurgen Melzer while Grosjean scored over Nicolas Lapentti in the semi-finals of the U.S. Men's clay court championships.
The British ace was beaten by defending champion David Nalbandian in the quarter-finals of the Swiss Indoors.
The fifth seeded Indo-American pair defeated Spain's Alex Lopez Moron and Rossana Neffa-De Los Rios of Parma 6-0 6-1 in the second round.
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