Trailing 5-3 in the first set, Ferrer won the next nine games to effect a fantastic turnaround. The Spaniard will now face compatriot Rafael Nadal in the semi-final today. <img alt="" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/dec/David-Ferrer.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 659px;" /> David Ferrer returns to Stanislas Wawrinka during their Mubadala World Tennis Championship match. Pic/AFP The 31-year-old had lost to Nadal in the final of the French Open last season. In the other match of the day, Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeated Andy Murray 7-5, 6-3. Ferrer recently split with his coach Javier Piles after a 15-year working relationship. &ldquo;I am sad because it was a very familial relationship and next year I will begin with Jose Altur along with my same team,&rdquo; he said. Ferrer and Piles had endured a close but sometimes roller-coaster relationship. The coach once locked Ferrer in a cupboard as punishment for a poor performance on the practice courts. Ferrer is the second Top 3 player to change coaches in the last week after World No 2 Novak Djokovic hired Boris Becker as his head coach.

World No 3 David Ferrer routed  Stanislas Wawrinka 7-5, 6-1 in the opening round of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship yesterday

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