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SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Top-seeded Tommy Haas came back to defeat Horacio Zeballos of Argentina 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 to advance to the Brazil Open semifinals on Friday. Stan Smith Scontate Outlet . Haas broke Zeballos serve twice in a row in the decisive set to close the match and take a step closer to his second final of the year. The 12th-ranked German lost to Marin Cilic in the final in Croatia earlier this month. Haas will next play Paolo Lorenzi of Italy, who reached his first ATP semifinal with an upset 7-6 (6), 6-7 (4), 6-4 win over fourth-seeded Juan Monaco of Argentina. "Lorenzi has been around for a long time so this is a goal Im sure he has been waiting to achieve for a lifetime," Haas said. "He has nothing to lose and is going to try to go one more and get to his first ATP tour final. He is a dangerous player. Im going to have to try to play some of my best tennis." The 114th-ranked Lorenzi broke Monacos serve to go up 4-3 in the final set and held on to close the match in 2 hours, 34 minutes at the Ibirapuera Arena. The 32-year-old Italian squandered a match point before losing the second set, but was in control in the third to pick up the win in the ATP 250 tournament in South Americas biggest city. Lorenzi served 12 aces en route to his first pro semifinal after five career quarterfinal losses. "Im very happy to finally breakthrough to the semifinals," Lorenzi said. "Ive had a lot of opportunities before but was never able to come up with the victory at this stage. For sure this is one of my greatest weeks on the tour." The 43rd-ranked Monaco was trying to win his 200th clay-court match. He is the fifth-highest winner on the surface, behind Rafael Nadal, David Ferrer, Tommy Robredo and Nicolas Almagro. Monaco had a set point in the first set but couldnt capitalize on it. 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LOUIS - The short-handed St. Louis Blues took on the visiting Anaheim Ducks with a simple game plan and a lack of offensive firepower.Jake Allen took care of the rest.The Blues young goalie recorded his second NHL shutout, stopping 24 shots, and Alexander Steen and Ryan Reaves provided the offence as the Blues beat the Ducks 2-0 on Thursday night for their third consecutive victory.I felt really good this week in practice, Allen said. I didnt know when I was going to get another start, and I just wanted to be ready every time I can.Els (Brian Elliott) played great on Tuesday in Dallas, and it was my job to give the guys a chance.The Blues (5-3-1) won their third consecutive game despite playing without four of their top nine forwards on Thursday. David Backes and T.J. Oshie sat out because of concussions, Paul Stastny was sidelined by a shoulder injury, and Joakim Lindstrom missed the game due to an illness.Every team goes through this, and were no different, Steen said. Were going through it right now and were doing our best to continue to move forward and play the style of game that we want to play.Were doing our best to keep the train moving forward and then start getting guys back when they feel healthy.The Ducks (8-3), coming off a 1-0 win at Chicago on Tuesday, played the second game of a four-game, six-day trip. Anaheim had won four straight against the Blues, including a 3-0 home victory on Oct. 19.After an eight-game winning streak, they have lost two of three.They were a hungry team, Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. We talked about it before the game. Teams that are down some of their best players they dig deeper, and they played as hard as they could.If you are not ready to meet their work ethic then you are not going to have success. They just worked harder.Steen tipped in a long shot from Carl Gunnarsson for his second goal of the season to give the Blues a 1-0 lead 4:29 in. Kevin Shattenkirk eearned his team-high eighth assist of the season. Air Max 95 Outlet Italia. Reaves made it 2-0 with his second at 2:03 of the third.It was the second goal in three games for Reaves, a fourth-line enforcer, and his 13th in 203 career games.He joked that he was taking tips from teammate Vladimir Tarasenko, who recorded a hat trick in Tuesdays overtime win at Dallas.Were rolling right now and were trying to build, and its a big win, Reaves said.Allen (2-1) posted his first shutout since March 14, 2013 — a 3-0 win against the Coyotes.The 24-year-old Allen stopped 13 Ducks shots in the first period, four in the second and seven in the third.Jake was solid, Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. The feeling for me on the bench was that they werent going to score, which is a real good feeling when youre standing on the bench like that.He made some good saves, as did (Anaheims John) Gibson. He was great. He kept it 1-0 for a long time there, especially in the second and early third.Allen made a clutch save on Corey Perrys point-blank, power-play rebound attempt with 10:55 left. He also got some help from Maxim Lapierre late when the forward cleared a puck off the goal line with 1:54 remaining.I thanked him after the game, Allen said of Lapierre. There was a screen. I think (Ryan) Kesler shot it, and I just saw it at the last second and got my glove on it and I didnt really want to move in case I knocked it in my own net.Great second effort by him. Those guys are sacrificing, paying the extra price.NOTES: The Blues had a moment of silence before the game for St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras and his girlfriend, Ydelia Arvelos, who were killed in a car accident in the Dominican Republic on Sunday. . With Lindstrom out, the Blues went with 11 forwards and seven defencemen. . Ducks D Mark Fistric left the game in the first period with an upper-body injury. Anaheim played with just five defencemen the rest of the way. ' ' '