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Nadal downs Davydenko

Agencies, Abu Dhabi
The top-ranked player in the world. Spanish Rafael Nadal's explosive powerplay proved to hot for Russian world number five Nikolay Davydenko to handle. Nadal won the second semifinal 6-2, 6-3 here on Friday.
Davydenko started in brilliant fashion by breaking Nadal in the first game without giving him any point
But Nadal regrouped within no time and completely dominated the Russian to take the i first set 6-2.
In the second set. Davydenko broke Nadal in the first game again, but the reigning French and Wimbledon champion broke right back Another break in the sixth game and it was all over for Davydenko.
Earlier former world num-
ber one Roger Federer produced some magical moments, but that wasn’t enough to prevent a fourth loss in his last five matches to the fast-improving Andy Murray.
In the first semifinal of the Capitala World Tennis Championship, an exhibition shootout being played at the Zayed Sports City tennis stadium, Scotsman Murray prevailed in three sets 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (8-6).
The winner of the Nadal-Murray final takes home the entire purse of $250,000 in the shootout tournament
Murray, who seemed in pain and clutched his back after the second set said:
"It's always a challenge playing Roger. I've got the better of him on a few occasions, but in the big one we played, at the US Open final, he beat me pretty badly. Hopefully, I'll get him in a Grand Slam one day.
"It will be nice to become the number one player in the world,
but my aim for 2009 is to win a Grand Slam event, and I feel the Australian Open is my best chance. So, this is a really nice preparation for that"
Federer, who won the US Open last year, said: "It was quite a good start to the year, but I just could not pull through. Andy has been playing some very good tennis and he carried his form from the end oflastyear."
Nadal also revealed his ambitions for2009, saying: "The aim really is to be a better player than I was last year and to keep improving. Obviously, I like the position I am in right now and would like to keep it this way as long as possible. "
On his match against Davydenko, the Spaniard added; "I have been working hard on my game lately even though I haven't been playing competitive tennis for the past two months or so. I was delighted with the way I played today and am looking forward to the rest of the season."