Robin Haase upset top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-5, 7-6 (7/4) to earn a Sunday final at the Austrian Open against German veteran Tommy Haas. Haas reached his third Vienna final as furious opponent Lukas Rosol cracked a racquet in half when facing six match points, drawing a point penalty which handed his German opponent a 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/0) win.
Tsonga, competing in a fourth event in the last five weeks, was playing with a heavy strapping on the left knee which kept him out of tennis for nearly three months over the summer. "Haase is a good player who gave me trouble on clay in Madrid," said Frenchman Tsonga, who is trying to claim one of the four remaining places at the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London. "I'm not in the best of shape and it showed out there. But I have to keep playing if I want to make London. I had my chances but he was too good. I just have to keep fighting and trying to win matches."
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