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Rejecting pleas from its players and coach, the Spanish tennis federation chose Madrid's bullring Friday as the venue for the Davis Cup semifinal series against the United States.

The Spanish players had preferred one of the three other candidates - Benidorm, Tenerife and Gijon - for the Sept. 19-21 matchup against the defending champion Americans.

The team said Madrid's 2,100-foot altitude will remove the team's home-court advantage and accused federation president Pedro Munoz of favoring the capital city because of sponsorship money.

 It's the first time in 10 years that Madrid will host a Davis Cup match. Friday's decision was made by a secret ballot of federation board members, with Munoz abstaining, national news agency Efe reported. Madrid received nine votes, Benidorm four, Gijon two and Tenerife one.

 ``The problem is not so much the altitude but ... at first he (Munoz) said he would adhere to the requests of the players and then he went back on his word. That is what hurt us, that he doesn't honor his promises,'' Sanchez Vicario told Radio Marca on Friday.

Novak Djokovic will face Stanislas Wawrinka in the Rome Masters final after both their semi-final opponents retired through injury on Saturday.

Roger Federer's conqueror Radek Stepanek bowed out to Djokovic with a wrist problem while trailing 6-0 1-0.

And Andy Roddick withdrew against Wawrinka with a back injury when trailing 3-0 in the first set.

The event has been dogged by injuries with Nicolas Almagro pulling out against Djokovic in the previous round.

The controversial withdrawals will no doubt provoke more debate, recently sparked by world number two Rafael Nadal, on whether the increasingly-crowded ATP calendar is putting too much of a strain on the top tour players.

The ATP has made several changes to the calendar in 2008 to accommodate the Olympic Games in August, with the clay court season hit heavily.

Rome was preceded by successive clay tournaments at Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Munich and will be followed next week by Hamburg before the game's top stars head to Paris for the second major of the season, the French Open starting on 25 May.

That's of course if there are any fit players left by then!!