Rafa Nadal has taken a step more in its unstoppable progression ?at the best moment? of its race, according to has recognized the young Majorcan tennis player after confirming itself like number one of the year, to the gained salary, in only a month and means, the Masters Series of Indian Wells, the one of Montecar it and the Trophy Count of Godó. Although one stays like number two of the world, the beaten Earth king appeared east Monday in the first position of the Race of Champions, the classification of the season, with 19 points of advantage on Roger Federer, whom tomorrow will face, in Palm, in a called party of exhibition ?the battle of the surfaces?.
After being moderate to the world-wide leader in a field half of beaten earth and half of grass, Nadal one has marked as objective immediate to the conquest of the Masters Series of Rome, where it will defend the obtained points the last year, when also the title in the Itálico Forum was adjudged when winning to Federer in the end. Like it happened in Montecar it and the Godó, also champion by third consecutive year in Rome aspires to proclaim itself, to increase a gust of wind victorious that already reaches the 72 consecutive triumphs on earth.
Although the enormous difference between Federer and Nadal in the world-wide classification of the ATP could allow the Swiss to continue more in the leadership during two years (7,290 points of the Helvetian as opposed to 4,875 of the Spanish). Nevertheless, in the first two months and means of the year it underwent unexpected slips.