Asian Handicap ATP - Malaysian Open Final Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) vs Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) 12BET 4:3)PM GMT+8

 The first semi-final pits No. 2 seed Viktor Troicki of Serbia against Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis, a wild card entry. Troicki has not lost a set this week and is now through to his first ATP World Tour semi-final since breaking into the Top 20 seven and a half months ago. Standing in between him and the final will be Baghdatis. It has been a difficult season for Baghdatis, his ranking falling from No. 20 at the start of the year to No. 60 this week, a fall largely due to him failing to defend most of the points he earned in last year’s summer hard court season (he was 11-6 last summer but only 4-6 this summer). Baghdatis has lost his past five matches against Top 20 players, but has shown vintage form this week, not losing a set and taking out two seeds en route to this round - No. 6 Alex Bogomolov Jr. and No. 4 Jurgen Melzer (which was a near-Top 20 win - Melzer is No. 21). Troicki and Baghdatis have split two career meetings, both last year and both meetings coming on hard courts.

The second semi-final pits No. 3 seed Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia against No. 8 Kei Nishikori of Japan. Tipsarevic and Nishikori have already met four times this year, Tipsarevic winning the three on faster surfaces in straight sets (at Chennai, Delray Beach and Eastbourne) and their clay court meeting in three sets (in Belgrade). He finished extremely well in that Belgrade encounter however, winning 11 points in a row to seal a 26 62 76(0) victory. Nishikori is very match tough this week however - all of his matches before this one went to three sets, and he did pull off the biggest upset of the week in the quarter-finals, ousting top seed Nicolas Almagro, 67(5) 64 64. Tipsarevic may have extra motivation here: he’s the highest-ranked player never to win an ATP World Tour title. If Nishikori gets to the final, he will move from No. 54 to around a career-high No. 43 or 44, and he would become the highest-ranked Japanese man in ATP Rankings history (since 1973). Shuzo Matsuoka was No. 46 on July 6, 1992.  Nishikori reached No. 46 earlier this year on May 2.- by http://www.atpworldtour.com