Novak Djokovic survived a late bout of nerves to beat Spanish fifth seed David Ferrer 6-0, 6-3, 7-5 on Wednesday and reach the Australian Open semi-finals. The Serbian third seed missed four match points and was broken when serving for victory but recovered to set up a semi-final against either world number one Roger Federer or American 12th seed James Blake.
The Swiss beat David Ferrer 6-4, 6-0 at Monte Carlo Masters to clinch his 500th professional win.
The 24-year-old ended a four-year title drought to claim his second ATP crown. He also beat Acasuso in the Bucharest final in 2002.
The world number one's off-season preparation will now be geared towards breaking Pete Sampras's record of 14 Grand Slam singles titles in 2008.
The World No 1 put on a vintage display to beat the Spaniard in the final of the season-ending event on Sunday. His victory at the showcase eight-man tournament put him level with Ilie Nastase and one behind the record of five titles held by Ivan Lendl and Pete Sampras.
The Swiss will play Nadal's countryman David Ferrer in Sunday's final at the showcase eight-man event in Shanghai following his 6-1, 6-3 thrashing of American Andy Roddick in the first semi-final.
Rafael Nadal blasted past Serb Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-4 to improve his record to 2-1 at the Masters Cup.
David Ferrer defeated Rafael Nadal while Novsk Djokovic was knocked out of the Shanghai Masters Cup.
Spain's Rafael Nadal charged back from a set down to beat Frenchman Richard Gasquet 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the opening match of the Tennis Masters Cup, while David Ferrer made it a perfect day for Spain with an impressive 6-4 6-4 victory over Serbia's Novak Djokovic in the second Gold Group match.
Top seed Juan Martin del Potro will play sixth seeded American Sam Querrey in the Auckland Open final after both advanced to the title match in contrasting style on Friday.
World number two Rafael Nadal recovered from an unsteady start to overpower Marcos Baghdatis 6-4 6-4 in the Madrid Masters on Wednesday and set up a mouth-watering last-16 clash against Andy Murray.
Spain's Rafael Nadal will have to counter the vinyl-covered wood-base floor during the Davis Cup tie against Switzerland.
David Ferrer beat Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-1, 6-2 to win the Japan Open title.
Venus Williams suffered a shock 4-6, 7-6, 6-4 defeat by France's Virginie Razzano in the Japan Open final.
Both won their semi-finals at the US open in straight sets, beating Nikolay Davydenko and David Ferrer respectively.
Roger Federer is poised to write more tennis history at the U.S. Open this weekend against semi-final opponent Nikolay Davydenko at the National Tennis Center.
Feliciano Lopez beat an ailing Juan Martin del Potro after David Nalbandian's straight sets win over David Ferrer in the opening rubber of the Davis Cup final.
Serbia's Novak Djokovic and Spaniard David Ferrer rolled into the US Open semi-finals for the first time in their careers.
Ferrer's stunning victory over the French Open champion earned him a quarter-final showdown against 20th seed Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina.
Roger Federer survived a scratchy performance to beat Marcos Baghdatis 7-6, 7-5 to reach the quarter-finals.
Novak Djokovic opened his title bid at the Montreal Masters with an impressive 6-3, 6-3 win over Nicolas Kiefer.
David Ferrer outclassed his Spanish compatriot Nicolas Almagro in the Swedish Open final on Sunday, winning 6-1 6-2 to clinch his fourth career title.
Spaniard Nicolas Almagro reached the Swedish Open final by scoring his first win over compatriot Carlos Moya.
Top seed David Ferrer began the defence of his Japan Open title with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 victory over American Jesse Levine.
Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov won his first ATP tour title by fighting back to upset Spanish top seed David Ferrer 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the Stockholm Open on Sunday.
The Spaniard beat fourth seed David Nalbandian of Argentina 7-6, 6-2.
World number one Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal reached milestones as they eased into he Monte Carlo Masters Series semi-finals on Friday.
David Ferrer knocked out sixth seeded Serb Novak Djokovic 7-5, 6-4 in the third round.
Spain did not need their best players to beat India but then they are taking the World Group Davis Cup play-off tie very "seriously", bringing a strong 20-member contingent to tackle the lower-ranked home players.
Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick advanced into the last eight of the Miami Masters.
India lost the opening tie of the Davis Cup World Group play-off against Spain after Ramkumar Ramanathan lost to Spain's Feliciano Lopez 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 on a hot evening in Delhi on Friday.
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The world No 1 will meet Paradorn Srichaphan in the last four of the Swiss Indoors tournament.
Defending champion Paradon Srichaphan stormed into the last eight as seeds David Ferrer and Anthony Dupuis were upset in the Tata Open.
A near flawless Novak Djokovic crushed Marin Cilic 6-0, 6-3 to set up a blockbuster Monte Carlo Masters semi-final with claycourt king Rafa Nadal, who came through a testing workout by David Ferrer on Friday.
Fifth seed David Ferrer beat British teenager Andy Murray 4-6 ,7-6, 6-1 in the second round of the Barcelona Open
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were one match away from their first clash of the season after clinical wins in the Monte Carlo quarter-finals.
Spaniards David Ferrer and Juan Carlos Ferrero also suffered first round shocks at the Valencia Open on Tuesday.
The world number one swept aside Spain's David Ferrer in the Nasdaq-100 Open semi-final and set up a clash with Ivan Ljubicic.
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