Estonia's Kaia Kanepi recovers to win Estoril Open
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Kaia Kanepi of Estonia won the Estoril Open on Saturday, saving two match points to beat Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4.
Among the men, defending champion Juan del Potro of Argentina and Richard Gasquet of France won semifinals and will play for the title Sunday in this clay-court tuneup for the French Open. This is Gasquet's first final since July 2010.
Kanepi, seeded sixth, survived the match points in the second-set tiebreaker. She then rebounded from a 3-1 deficit to capture her second title of the season and third of her career. Suarez Navarro is 0-3 in finals.
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"I've won a few matches from match points down but I've never won a final like this," Kanepi said. "I'll remember this final in a good way for a long time."
The top-seeded Del Potro didn't surrender a break-point chance in beating third-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 7-6 (2), 6-4. Gasquet, seeded second, rallied past Albert Ramos of Spain 2-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5.
Gasquet looked finished when he slammed his racket into the ground after losing a point at the start of the second set. But Ramos dropped his next service game with three straight errors.
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Gasquet didn't waste the chance and drew even at one set each before finishing off the fourth-seeded Ramos in just over three hours when his return sailed wide.