Jamie should have got to the Final, of course, being no. 2 seed, but what's been really impressive this week is how he's not only beaten these players he should beat, but beaten them so convincingly, winning every set to 3 or less. He'll have one of the other two top three seeds in the Final, so that'll be a good short-term test of what kind of effect his DC experience has had on his confidence.

Kevin ANDERSON (RSA) (1) defeated Nicolas TODERO (ARG) (4) 6-7(8) 7-6(6) 7-5
Jamie BAKER (GBR) (2) defeated Artem SITAK (RUS) 6-3 6-2

So the final -
Kevin ANDERSON (RSA) (1) vs. Jamie BAKER (GBR) (2)

Anderson is WR 179, a career high, and beat Boggo 4 & 4 in New Caledonia last month. He amanged to win the New Orleans Challenger as a qualifier last September, beating Sam Warburg by the astonishing margin iof 4 & 0 in the Final and losing just one set in 7 matches, a couple of months after reaching the Final of the Winnetka Challenger after qualifying for that too, winning 14 sets in a row before losing to Noam Okun in the Final.

So, as Arka says, a good thing he had such a marathon match today!

Match to be played no earlier than noon local time, 18.00 GMT...    C'mon, Jamie!

i'll talk to him after the final. lets hope its good news.

Well anderson has lost twice as many games as jamie this week so jamie should be fresher if it goes the distance.

He's only been & gone & done it:  7-6(1) 6-4!       Can someone please work out how that's going to affect his ranking?