Federer loses to fellow Swiss in rainy Monte-Carlo

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04/16/2009 - Monte-Carlo, Monaco (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former world No. 1 superstar Roger Federer was upset by fellow Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka on a rainy Thursday at the $3.6 million Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, the third ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event of the year.

The 13th-seeded Wawrinka stunned the second-seeded Federer 6-4, 7-5 on the red clay at the prestigious Monte-Carlo Country Club. Federer had reached the last three finals here, losing to current world No. 1 Rafael Nadal on all three occasions.

Wawrinka pulled off the upset in 1 hour, 50 minutes, as he broke Federer's serve three times, while the 13-time major champ could manage only one break in the bout.

The world No. 16 Wawrinka captured a doubles gold medal alongside Federer at last year's Olympic Games in Beijing.

The reigning five-time U.S. Open titlist Federer has yet to win a title this season. He lost to Nadal in January's Australian Open final.

A top-seeded and reigning four-time Monte-Carlo champion Nadal had his third- round match suspended because of rain on Day 5 here. The reigning Aussie Open, Wimbledon and French Open champion was trailing Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti, a qualifier this week, 0-1 in the first set when play was called.

Third-seeded Serbian star Novak Djokovic prevailed in between rain drops, as he topped capable Spaniard Albert Montanes 6-1, 6-7 (4-7), 6-0, while fourth- seeded surging Brit Andy Murray will have to wait until Friday to complete his third-rounder against Italian qualifier Fabio Fognini. The U.S. Open runner-up and Miami Masters titlist Murray was leading Fognini 7-6 (13-11), 1-0 when play was called for the day. Murray topped Djokovic in the Miami finale two weeks ago.

Two other matches were completed on Thursday, as seventh-seeded Fernando Verdasco whipped 10th-seeded fellow Spaniard David Ferrer 6-2, 6-1 and German qualifier Andreas Beck overcame Argentine Juan Monaco 3-6, 6-2, 7-5.

Two other matches were postponed altogether, as eighth-seeded Russian Nikolay Davydenko was scheduled to meet 12th-seeded Argentine David Nalbandian and Italian Simone Bolelli was slated to face Croatian wild card Ivan Ljubicic. Those matches are now part of Friday's schedule.

Two quarterfinal matches are already on the Friday schedule, as Djokovic will encounter Verdasco and Wawrinka will take on Beck.

The 2009 Monte-Carlo winner will collect $580,500.

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