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Regions Morgan Keegan Championships And Cellular South Cup - Memphis 2007 Regions Morgan Keegan Ch'ships
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Memphis, Tennessee
February 16-25, 2007
Regions Morgan Keegan Championships And Cellular South Cup - Memphis 2007
Andy Roddick Wins, Venus Williams Meets Peer Tonight
Reporting From Onsite In Memphis, Tennessee
By Tripp Mateschitz, Lawn Tennis Correspondent, Posted: Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:05pm CST USA
SF: A. Roddick def. A. Murray 6-3, 7-6(7-4)
Shahar Peer Venus Williams Andy Roddick Andy Murray 
Memphis 2007 Regions Morgan Keegan
 Championships and the Cellular South CupShahar Peer Venus Williams Andy Roddick Andy Murray 
Memphis 2007 Regions Morgan Keegan
 Championships and the Cellular South Cup

Venus Williams and Andy Roddick

MEMPHIS--(lawntennismag.com) At the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and Cellular South Cup Saturday, Andy Roddick of the USA defeated Andy Murray of England 6-3, 7-6(7-4) in the semifinals to move into tomorrow's final against Tommy Haas of Germany who downed Mardy Fish of the USA 6-3, 6-4.

Roddick scored an early break for 2-0 as Murray sent a forehand wide. After taking the first set 6-3, Roddick recovered from a 3-5 hole to reach the tiebreaker. Two aces from Andy both at 130 miles per hour and the match was done 6-4, 7-6(7-4). It was some measure of revenge for Roddick who had lost to Murray last week in San Jose.

"It was really satisfying especially after last week," Roddick said. "Coming into today I didn't think I was hitting the ball that well. I wasn't getting the depth that I wanted to. Today I thought I did a lot better. To feel like you're doing that well against Andy is a good sign."

Sunday's men's final features Roddick, seeded number one and Haas, seeded number two. The last meeting of number one and two seeds at Memphis occured twenty years ago when top seeded Stefan Edberg of Sweden defeated second seed Jimmy Connors of the USA in 1987.

In the women's final tonight, Venus Williams of the USA ends her comeback week from wrist injury in Memphis against Shahar Peer of Israel. The two players have never faced each other, however Peer lost last month a three set thriller to Venus' sister Serena Williams in the Australian Open quarterfinals 3-6, 6-2, 8-6.

Venus said after her semifinal she'd watched the match, "I think that (Peer) does everything well. She moves well, fights hard. She does everything well. So I don't think there's any specific thing I'm going to have to watch out for. I don't think there's any specific thing that she's going to do to hurt me per say. She just does everything well."

Peer's young age of 19 and inexperience may be one of the factors to decide the match as could Williams' errors if she is unable to keep a low error count. Look for Williams to attack the net to avoid long points against a speedy Peer.

Television Schedule: Women's Final will be broadcast on the Tennis Channel tonight.
Men's Final will be broadcast on Fox Sports Net.


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