Rome Masters
Spain's Fernando Verdasco came back from the brink of defeat to beat top seed Andy Roddick 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 in the last 16 of the Rome Masters on Thursday.
Verdasco made most of Roddick's sporting decision as the American corrected the umpire's call on the Spaniard's second serve when he was trailing 3-5 and 0-40 in the second set.
The set went to a tiebreak, which the Spaniard took easily with a series of whipped crosscourt winners.
Roddick then put a forehand wide to drop serve in the opening game of the decider and the unseeded Verdasco went on to claim victory.
His reward will be a quarter-final against ninth seed Guillermo Coria of Argentina.
Photographs: Getty Images
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