Sport

Nieminen fires Davis Cup warning

14 April 2012

Jarkko Nieminen sent out an early warning for Britain's Davis Cup team when he beat Spain's Carlos Moya today to reach the semi-finals of the Thailand Open in Bangkok.

Nieminen is likely to come up against Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski in a Europe/Africa Group One Davis Cup match next April if Finland manage to knock out Luxembourg.

Spain have reached the final of this year's Davis Cup and Moya, who was a quarterfinalist at the French Open earlier this year, was seeded three in Bangkok. But Nieminen beat him 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 and the left-hander will now meet American Taylor Dent, who eased through when French opponent Nicolas Thomann retired with foot injury after losing the first set 6-3.

In today's other quarter-finals, local hero Paradorn Srichaphan faces Croatia's Ivan Ljubicic and top seed Juan Carlos Ferrero, of Spain, plays Frenchman Gregory Carraz.

Create a FREE account to continue reading

eros

Registration is a free and easy way to support our journalism.

Join our community where you can: comment on stories; sign up to newsletters; enter competitions and access content on our app.

Your email address

Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account

* Required fields

Already have an account? SIGN IN

By clicking Sign up you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use , Cookie policy and Privacy notice .

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in

MORE ABOUT

Davis Cup
French Open
Tennis