Carlos Moya beat Richard in the Bucharest seminfinals 6-2 6-4.
A solid Moya did not need to do much in the first set, in which Richard never found his range. He improved in the second set by approaching the net more and got some breakpoints. He could not convert them and the errors krept in again which lead to a 2-6 4-6 defeat. Richard's next tournament will be Bejing starting on 22 September.