From The Telegraph: Coria takes fast track on road to recovery
Compared to Rafael Nadal and Richard Gasquet, the two new kids on the block who contested the second semi-final, Guillermo Coria and Juan Carlos Ferrero, are almost elder-statesmen of the game.
Both have been dragged down by injury and illness during the past 12 months, but thankfully, for the good of a competitive summer on the red stuff, both have shown here that they are well on the road to full recovery.
Coria is a little further down that road than his Spanish rival, but Ferrero indicated he was catching up fast in a semi-final in which a little too much was asked of his rehabilitation and he lost 6-2, 7-5.
Lack of stamina as much as a sudden outbreak of choking may have been to blame for Coria's bizarre defeat to Gaston Gaudio in last year's French Open final when his game inexplicably disintegrated when two sets to love up. He has put on extra weight over the winter in an effort to find greater strength, albeit at a possible cost to his speed about the court. There was little evidence here of him slowing up, although his unrivalled dexterity with the drop-shot meant it was Ferrero who did most of the running about.
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