Unseeded Ginepri wins RCAs

INDIANAPOLIS -- Robby Ginepri defeated Taylor Dent 4-6, 6-0, 3-0 Sunday at the RCA Championships final, but Ginepri wasn't alone in handing out the defeat.\nDent was forced to retire halfway through the third set as the intense summer heat index, which rose well into the 100s, and his extended training regimen of this past week became too much for him.\n"I just woke up this morning and felt OK, but I guess the long week just caught up with me," Dent said.\nGinepri's defeat over his No. 4-seeded competitor made him the first unseeded champion in RCA Championships history and the second in ATP tournament history. But his win wasn't as effortless as the final two sets would indicate.\n"The first two games (of the first set) took a long time," Ginepri said. "I could tell he was kind of running out of energy."\nThe first set was highly-competitive and saw around ten deuces. The two exchanged games until Dent gained the momentum at 4-4 when he managed to break service. He would garner the next two points for the set victory.\n"I was really lucky to get that break," Dent said.\nThe second set began and Dent started showing signs of fatigue early. Ginepri surged to an early 3-0 lead, and the second set quickly became uncompetitive.\nThe 3-0 lead quickly swelled to an easy 6-0 victory for Ginepri, and Dent was forced to call a medical timeout before the third set to allow his trainer to work on him. Dent would eventually emerge from his chair visibly exhausted for the third set.\n"I just really tried to push myself, but I guess I just had nothing left in the tank," said Dent, who gave up 13-straight game points in between the end of the second set and the beginning of the third set. "The ammonia (given to Dent by his trainer) only helped for one point."\nDent quickly dropped to a 3-0 deficit and failed to emerge from his chair at the break.\n"I didn't want to do any physical harm to myself," said Dent, who even quit contesting some of Ginepri's better shots in the final two sets. "I felt like I was letting the fans down."\nDent appeared extremely fatigued for the last two sets, but he said that it was his conditioning that ultimately spelled his demise.\nDent is still recovering from an ankle injury incurred earlier this year, and he says that while his skill set is back to where it used to be, his conditioning hasn't quite caught back up.\nHe is also bigger than most tennis players, and Ginepri said he thought this ultimately hurt him as well.\n"It is a bittersweet feeling (winning this way)," Ginepri said. "It's never easy playing Taylor, especially because he is one of my good friends."\nGinepri was unseeded, but the path he stormed through wouldn't indicate that. Before Sunday's victory, he rolled through the No. 8 seed, No. 9 seed, No. 10 seed and the No. 1 seed -- Andy Roddick.\n"I've had an incredible week," he said. "(I'll) maybe bust open a bottle of champagne and take a flight to L.A now"