Sunday's match will offer Nalbandian the chance to make amends for last year, when he pulled out shortly before the start of the final with a wrist injury. Massu was making a lot of mistakes on his backhand.' 'I wouldn't say I was playing at my best. 'It wasn't a very long match, so that was better for me than yesterday,' said Nalbandian in reference to his two-and-a-quarter-hour win over Germany's Rainer Schuettler.
The Chilean world number 18, who won two Olympic gold medals in Athens, struggled with what looked like a rib injury as he failed to perform in the opening set.īroken three times in the second, Massu did manage to claw two breaks back before Nalbandian served out with an ace. Nalbandian, who will meet unseeded Czech Jiri Novak in the final, needed just 78 minutes to see off the seventh seed. Argentine fourth seed David Nalbandian reached the final of the Swiss Indoor tennis tournament for the third consecutive year overnight with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Chilean Nicolas Massu.
