* The Spaniards, very irregular, rozaron victory before the new pair of EE. UU.
* Shift now to Nadal, who will play the fourth point before Roddick (Sunday 12:00)

Verdasco and Feliciano regret a mistake. (AFP)
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MADRID .- very quick points, matched games where the service should play a key role. Under these conditions caused by the altitude of Madrid, Emilio Sanchez Vicario did not hesitate in giving Fernando Verdasco and Feliciano Lopez, the two most powerful punch of Spanish tennis, the role of players in the doubles encounter in front of EE. UU. to get the final point in the semifinals of the Davis Cup. But the couple was unable Spanish with Mike Bryan and Mardy Fish, duo circumstantial, for the first time on the same side of the track but with more experience in the discipline. The Americans were imposed in three hours and 16 minutes (4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 4-6 and 6-4) and postponed the decision until Sunday.

Mike Bryan, 51 doubles titles in the curriculum, has raised only two trophies with his brother Bob (Long Island 2002, along with Maesh Bhupathi, and Nottingham 2002, along with Mark Knowles). Only seven tournaments in the circuit has competed without the company of his sister, with whom he maintains a favorable record of 14-2 in Davis Cup encounters. For the first time since joining the team of EE. UU. (2003) shared stadium with a new partner, Mardy Fish, a singles tennis player with aspirations but with more doubles titles (4) solo (2).

Lacking in pace, of togetherness, suffered in the first part to curb the excellent service performance in the Spanish (15 ‘aces’ throughout the meeting), especially in the case of Verdasco. Neither gave Madrid a point with his serve throughout the set, resolved in favor of the local team in the seventh game. Mike Bryan, the less endowed her partner for the service, delivered his kick after a volley at the net and sending over Fish.

Verdasco and Feliciano, routine since 2004, champions the same year in Stockholm, reduced their level of success in the service and Bryan, great for the rest, efficient in the volley and in each of his movements, a dancer on the ‘clay’ of Madrid, reversed the situation to seize the first sign of weakness Verdasco with his serve. The world number 15 of a pair of brown right after a direct rest of Bryan and offered the first option to ‘break’ to the Americans, seized by Fish with a volley in the face of Feliciano Toledo knew that the shift in time with his racket .
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Again went with service Verdasco in the eighth game of the third part, when Spain appeared to lose the compass of the meeting. The left-handed left open space after his kick and EE. UU. not failed. A new error of togetherness. Feliciano gave out their service for the first time in the first game of the fourth race. The point of double departed almost definitively until a double lack of Bryan, a poor volley of Fish and other gnadora Lopez returned the balance to the marker.

Spain then saved a point of ‘break’ and the second consecutive noted in its favor, this time with Fish in the service. The break, achieved at the seventh attempt with a direct rest of Verdasco, partially closed the quarter with a sign other than the planned and led the decisive duel to September.

Far from wrinkle to an insane and some tier rivals reinforced by the comeback, Bryan Fish, and Verdasco forced to save three balls to ‘break’ in the first game’s outcome. And it was Verdasco, in the fifth game after a long volley of Feliciano, who relinquished his serve again.

Despite showing a greater flair for the game, the irregularity of the Spanish duo finally swing the balance of the U.S. side. Spain maintained a lead of 2-1 in the tie. The responsibility of adding the third point, the final in the knockout is now up to Rafael Nadal. The world number one was measured at Andy Roddick (3-2 in favor of Spanish) on Sunday at 12.00.