Top seed Tomas Berdych set up a meeting with third-seeded defending champion Gael Monfils of France in Sunday's final of the ATP event in Montpellier. Czech Berdych, 26, eased past Germany Philipp Kohlschreiber, the seventh seed, 6-3, 6-4 after Monfils, 25, earlier ousted second-seeded fellow Frenchman Gilles Simon 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 Saturday. Simon missed a match point along the way as world number 13 Monfils shrugged off a knee complaint to win in 2hr 30min and set up a meeting with either Czech Tomas Berdych or Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber. Monfils conceded the opening set in 43 minutes but he bagged the tiebreak in the second after staving off a match point at 5-6 and then stepped up a gear with a break at the start of the final set. Simon battled back to 3-3 but then conceded serve once more as Monfils pipped him to the wire. Youzhny-Lacko final Third-seeded Mikhail Youzhny of Russia reached the finals of the Zagreb Indoors tournament on Saturday after defeating Germany's Michael Berrer 6-3, 6-4. Youzhny — who will play his first final since St. Petersburg in 2010 — will face Lukas Lacko on Sunday after the Slovak ousted sixth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 7-5, 7-6 (3). The Russian played well at crucial times against Berrer, who was a finalist here in 2011 and 2010. After winning the first set, Youzhny broke early in the second, but Berrer broke back. Youzhny then broke again at 4-4 and went on to complete his victory. Lacko will play his first ATP final after ousting three seeded players en route to the final. Lacko reached the third round at the Australian Open, where he lost to Rafael Nadal. He pressed hard against Baghdatis and managed a break at 6-5 in the first set, which he then easily closed. Baghdatis responded aggressively in the second set and was two points away from a 5-1 lead, but Lacko recovered and won the tiebreaker.
