David Ferrer hangs on to reach the Auckland semi-finals

David Ferrer played a faultless final set up until his last service game. 5-3 up and having lost only 2 out of 18 points on serve in the third set, the numbr one seed went 15-40 down when serving for the match. He managed to hold off Kohlschreiber to increase his head to head record to 6-3. Next up wither Colombias Santiago Giraldo or Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci