The Spanish second seed Rafael Nadal for the title at the Australian Open, the first grand slam in tennis, after pulling out in front of Britain's Andy Murray, the fifth because of injury and the result indicates the progress of the last, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) and 3-0 day Tuesday in Melbourne.
Nadal had been the only title in Melbourne last year, beating Roger Federer in the final.
Spain is still looking for first title since last May where he was subjected to a series of injuries that kept him out for about two months last summer and lost on their impact top of the rankings for professional football players in the interest of Switzerland.
And meet with Murray in the semi-final against Croatian Marin Cilic XIV, who beat American Andy Roddick, VII 7-6 (7-4), 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3 today as well.
Murray paces and the imposition of the heavy blows in the corners made it difficult to Nadal on the defensive in most cases, and the success rate was high Irsalath first, continue his career towards the role of the four in their quest to make the title the first championships of the "Grand Slam".
Nadal suffered from pains in his right knee after the physical therapist asked the first half of the third set and then try to resume the match but he announced his decision to withdraw after the third game after two and a half hours.
Nadal is the second player to lose the title of his withdrawal from the quarter-finals after he had to the Serbian Novak Djokovic last year.
Croat Cilic the first semi-final Australia
It has become the first Croat Cilic of the semi-final victory over Roddick in three hours and 50 minutes.
It is also the first time they have reached the Celic (21 years) to slam semi-final of the "Grand Slam", and remains the best achievement was reaching the quarter final of the U.S. Open last year before losing to Argentine Juan Martin del Potro, who crowned her later.
Is the third game in this tournament, which terminates Cilic in five sets, it is more Mkutha which players on the pitch where he spent so far 18 hours and 8 minutes in the stadiums to finish five games.
Croatia was on the way to settle the game faster while offering sets-sided victory, especially that Roddick was not feeling well and requested physical therapist at the end of the first group complaining of pain in his right shoulder, but the U.S. rose up and just beat the result of the following clusters, taking advantage of low speed Cilic and committed many unforced errors.
And raise the Croatian penalty to ten consecutive victories since the beginning of this year after he was crowned at the Chennai Hindi.
And formed a new game disappointment for Roddick, who failed to win another title in the big tournaments, since belonging to the first title to six years ago when crowned U.S. Open in Flushing in 2003.
Rise of the Brotherhood before Brian's doubles final:
The levels of two U.S. brothers Bob and Mike Bryan to the semi-final men's doubles in the tournament on Tuesday.
In the quarter-finals Bryan brothers beat their compatriots Eric Boturak and Rajeev Ram sets to one and by 7-5, 4-6, 7-6.
Qualify as Michael Coleman and his colleague, Finn Jarkko Nieminen to the semi-final opponents after the withdrawal of Chilean Fernando Gonzalez and his fellow Croatian Ivan Ljubicic, when the result indicates the Tokma 4-6, 6-1, 2 - zero.
On the other hand qualify for the same role Ivo Karlovic and his partner, Dusan Vemic after winning the doubles component of Lukasz Kubot and Austrian Oliver Marach two sets to one by 2-6, 7-6, 7-6.
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