And although the 26-year-old Lopez did claw one break back, the mercurial Safin held his nerve to seal the match.
Serving for the match at 5-4, he forced a match point, saved by Federer, who proceeded to break back to level at 5-5.
However, Monfils, ranked 17th in the world, regained his nerve in the next game to break back and put his country 1-0 up.
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Nadal stepped up a gear to break back at 5-3 before taking it on a tie-break and one break was enough in the third.
The Dow then rallied back up to its 21-day m.a. last week, where the question was whether it would break back above the m.a.
Federer again had chances to break back, but Murray produced two huge first serves when he needed them, sealing the game with a crowd-pleasing slam-dunk smash.
But the 2002 champion clawed the break back and then struck again for a 6-4 6-4 4-6 7-5 win and a last eight match with Marcos Baghdatis.
Once I got back in it at the beginning of the fourth set, once I got the break back, I started hitting the ball a lot better.
Although Hewitt managed to break back in the eighth game of the third set, the 15-time Grand Slam champion simply broke again before closing out the win.
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He converted the third of his break points to open up a 2-1 lead in the first set, but an error in game eight handed Nadal a break back.
In searing early afternoon heat on the Stadium court, the match evolved into a baseline battle and Agassi began to hit harder and deeper before moving a break ahead at 4-3, only for Henman to break back.
Murray was hitting the ball cleanly and confidently, and when Federer wasted a chance to get the break back in game three with a poor forehand drop shot, the unusually frustrated reaction from the Swiss said it all.
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Yan, fresh from two Futures tournament triumphs but playing only his second ever match against an opponent ranked in the top 100, refused to be beaten and clawed a break back in game four with a winner down the line.
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It was panic stations for the Briton and he responded by reverting to the scrambling skills that are the bedrock of his game, forcing the errors from Baghdatis to break back for 1-1 when the Cypriot failed to make a smash.
This was a stunning show of power tennis from the 26-year-old and it felt like he would cruise over the line, but Ferrer had other ideas and dipped into his renowned energy reserves to break back in game eight and square the set at 5-5.
After the opening two sets were shared, Paris Masters winner Djokovic gained an early break in the decider, but came under pressure on his own service as he saved break back points in a marathon sixth game, but then finally succumbed as he served for the match at 5-4, Davydenko finally leveling on his fifth break point.
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Now, to do that, the first thing we had to do was break the back of this recession.
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All sides used dramatic acts of violence and brutality to try to break the back of the enemy.
So when I took office, we knew the first thing we had to do was to break the back of this recession.
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However, three unforced errors in the very next game allowed Djokovic to break straight back and the Serb served out the set.
Fed Chairman Paul Volcker had signaled, by jacking up interest rates so high, that he would stop at nothing to break the back of inflation.
And that's why we took some very tough steps, in some cases some unpopular steps, when I took office to break the back of this recession.
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The investments we have made and tough steps we have taken have helped break the back of the recession, and now our economy is finally growing again.
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If we try to break the back of this recession on the back of our military, then who will have our backs the next time we're attacked?
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And economists from across the political spectrum warned that if dramatic action was not taken to break the back of the recession, the United States could spiral into another depression.
Berdych was soon serving for the match and the pressure appeared to have got the better of him as Federer saved a match point and brought up a break-back point.
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