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After doing a very good match against Tsonga in the quarterfinals, Rafael Nadal Djokovic could do nothing

Rafael Nadal came within one step of the final Masters Bercy 1,000 semifinals before succumbing to Novak Djokovic, who displayed a hurricane play well above the level of Mallorca to win by 6-2, 6-3 hour and a quarter of the game.

The Spanish hit its peak in quarter-final against France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and fell in soft tennis, lacking aggressiveness and strength. Too weak against a huge Djokovic, who got all that was proposed and outpaced the Spaniard in all phases of the game. Proved to be the best player to the end of the year. The twenty duel between two and three of the world disappointed because Spanish was not up to the Serbian.

They are promised the audience happy Bercy, unaccustomed to being the best in the world go far in the its indoor season-ending tournament. He dreamed of a duel-like dog face Nadal and Djokovic who starred in the 1000 Madrid Masters last May, a party memorable. But they stayed with the desire for superiority of Djokovic and Nadal crushed the competition had no chance to hook into a meeting at which the Serbs had given cruising speed.

Nadal was more that of the first two games of the Bercy "brilliant" player who beat Tsonga. Against Nicolas Almagro and Tommy Robres the Spanish had a slab over, but his honor and his claw was used to survive and kill their rivals. Against Djokovic was unable to shake off the weight of the incisive and effective game of Serbian. "I got everything I've tried," he said happily "Nole", which until now had never passed the third round at Bercy. It is now well positioned to achieve its sixth title of the season, the having won two straight games after last Sunday Roger Federer in the final in Basel.

Djokovic showed he is the best player to the end of this season and wishes him great joy for the Masters tournament in London, where he'll defend the title achieved a year ago in Shanghai. The Serbian hungry jumped the track and determined not to let him eat Nadal ground. The first game had trouble keeping their service. Even went to the "Hawkeye" to claim a ball that the referee had given him against, which was a 15-40 for Nadal. The technique finally gave the reason why only a few millimeters. To the chagrin of Mallorca.

Since that setback, the two players with serve until 3-2. There began the greatest bump is remembered in tennis from Nadal in years. Yielded 14 points in a row, threw overboard the set. The bleeding did not stop there. After the 3-2 first set, "Nole" added seven straight games, three of them with Nadal's serve.

The pothole not only snatched the first set from Spanish but also mortgaged the second. Nadal was unable to return to the game. Every sprint, every attempt to recover the lost service was crashing with a genius for Serbian. Even enjoyed a breaking ball and that's saying a lot for a Nadal always eager to push its rivals, to bring them to the limit, to bring the duel in the psychological field. Djokovic was a lot for a modest Nadal. The Serbian needed no more than a match point to close the match and get into its tenth year end.

Monfils, THE OTHER FINALIST

Gaël Monfils will rival Djokovic after beating Czech Radek Stepanek 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. The final of the Paris indoor tournament for the second year will have a Frenchman, after it won last year Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Monfils was higher than Czech player in the first set and arranged for his service to win the second. But at that moment he shrugged his arm and allowed the fighter Stepanek stay alive in the match. Powered by a noisy audience, the French broke the serve of his opponent in the third game of the final sleeve, but passed it the next.

Until the ninth to snatch not stand again, as in the second set with his serve to close the match. This time he missed the French, who took a place in the final at the first pitch to achieve it. Robredo and Granollers, doubles finalists Catalans Tommy Robredo and Marcel Granollers qualified for the finals of the doubles tournament in Paris-Bercy Masters last 1,000 the season in the semifinals after defeating the Polish pair Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski 6-4, 6-2. In 49 minutes both Catalans got rid of the Poles, who left as seventh tournament favorites and a couple that are more established than Spanish

Rafael Nadal, the second global player, acknowledged that Spain is a favorite in the final of the Davis Cup against the Czech Republic from 4 to 6 December at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona.

Rafael Nadal, the second global player, acknowledged that Spain is a favorite in the final of the Davis Cup against the Czech Republic from 4 to 6 December at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. "In Davis, who plays at home is always the favorite, but the favorite does not always wins. We will have to prove it on the track, "said Nadal.

The player made his statements precisely in the Catalan capital, where he traveled to receive from his club Barcelona RCT, a replica of the Trofeo Conde de Godo in its capacity as the tournament champion five times (2005-2009). For the number one Spanish team, the Czech Republic "has no weaknesses," it has "level players, as Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek also make a good double. "Against them you can not say you have a point gained in advance," he said.

Having overcome their problems in the abdominals, Nadal wants to focus now on finishing the year in the best possible way. Davis would be the culmination of a dream. "I am very excited because this is a special competition where you represent your country. The final goal for this season over any other, is back to win it," he said.

To this end, Nadal made a appeal to the fans "of Barcelona, Catalonia and Spain" to fill the Sant Jordi "and help get the salad bowl. The Mallorcan tennis player also wanted to settle any controversy with his fellow Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco, on the final venue.

"What I said is that we must deal with players playing and not opinion. We could have given our opinion that if there had been a choice between playing or not in height, but from the time that Madrid did not run, we had nothing to say. All the venues were at sea level and have to say is the federation, "he argued.

The heavy rain that fell throughout the day in the Catalan capital was suspended because the acts that had been prepared on tracks 1 and 2 of the club and move this small tribute to the hall of the French school, where he improvised a small Minitennis court.

On stage, Nadal pandering to children's school club and answered their questions before receiving a replica trophy. "I had five of them, but in small. Now I have the big one. Still do not know where to put, but will be in a truly special," has ruled.

Rafael Nadal formalized the process to Nicolas Almagro (7-5, 6-4, 6-4) and fixed his residence in the fourth round of the U.S. Open, but he raised the competitive uncertainty about him and reawakened concerns about your physical condition.

The image of the Spanish duel, which eventually extended to four Hispanic representation in the fourth round of the tournament, told the two players lying on the floor before the fourth game of the third set, served on various ailments. Almagro took the opportunity to attend to him in the back, but before the third player in the world rung alarm bells when the therapist requested the presence of ATP Novotni Michal.

Rafael Nadal complained of pain in the abdomen and was treated there. So the air is the physical situation of the Spaniard, who turns a gesture when everything seems to be convulsing.

Nadal is back in a Grand Slam after falling at Roland Garros and resign Wimbledon because of tendinitis in his knee. He returned to compete in Mallorca cured after seventy days later to start the American season, which started with abdominal discomfort.

There was nothing alarming appearance so far in the Spanish physicist. At least purporting to give away. But the request for assistance on the court began to justify some things that were suspicious of his run of form in the game.



In fact, the first set was a seesaw of permanent breaks. Nadal did not draw well. He has not done throughout the tournament. He let's serve five times during the game. Excessive breaks for a candidate to measure his strength, in the third round and against an inferior opponent.

Almagro has never created so many setbacks to the Spaniard, who overwhelmed him in three previous events in which they had coincided. Especially noticeable is the latest in Paris in 2008, when Murcia was not able to do more than three games in as many sets.

Abdominal pain hampered the implementation of each point on Nadal and questioned his mobility. The situation rebuilds debate. A question their ability to cope with success in the only 'major' that is left to conquer. Only instability in the play of his opponent gave him the task. Almagro broke home and stood 2-0. But Nadal was not sustained and stood 4-2. The game lacked logic. Each player dropped his serve. It was the Spaniard missed the least and that the win gave him the set.

Something was wrong with the game of Nadal, the scene with the parking brake set. Without freshness. Conditioning. In the first meeting between the two on hard courts, Almagro rejected an opportunity to call into question the future in New York's former number one.

It was in the Nadal turned to third where doctor after signing as a break. By then it was well handled grief. Overcame the doubts aroused trance. Moreover grimaced when he shook the hand of his adversary, who confirmed his discomfort.

Nadal, who will play in the second round against the winner of the match between France's Gael Monfils and Argentina's Jose Acasuso, the process solved in a fruitful day for the Spanish courts.