Rafael Nadal does not host the finals of the U.S. Open after falling in the semifinals against Scots Andy Murray in a match that was suspended on Saturday due to lluvia.Pese to defeat the world number one has been satisfied with his performance in the fourth Grand Slam of the season. "When I arrived, my situation was probably not the best to play a good tournament, with many parties on my shoulders. I fought and I have done a good championship, so I left the U.S. Open with positive things with a good tournament ", said the Balearic tennis.
Rafael Nadal was dismissed in the best U.S. Open of his career can only do as a number one. To be exact, the number one tennis world: fighting, fighting until the end as when the indomitable Stanley Ketchel made giant Jack Johnson to exclaim: "This man is not human." This Nadal which eliminated Andy Murray, only saying that it fell as large: dropping his fists, fighting until the last breath.
"Rafael is not in a good state of mind or form, for the great effort in recent months. This week we are paying. Except the Olympic Games thanks to encouragement he received from people and other athletes, but here we have been very fair. " Before the resolution of the semifinal Nadal-Murray, the words of Toni Nadal already sounded premonition.
Breaks. But Nadal can only be applied comparisons and phrases of peleadores or bullfighters of legend: Stanley Ketchel ... Manolete: "defied death as a god, fell fighting like a man." The exhaustion of Nadal is reflected in the 20 balls that break Murray took over four sets. Murray hit like a thunder, but that figure is quite unusual.
Despite the exhaustion, despite a Murray in the best moment of his career, and negotiating the termination of the penultimate energy, Nadal pulled ahead in the third set that Arthur Ashe suspended on Saturday with 3-2 and pull for Rafa. For simple refusal to defeat, Nadal won 6-4, extended the match and sowed tension and anxiety among the Team Murray, commanded by his mother, the famous Judy and Miles Maclagan, the coach who has recast the boy Scots.
Nadal withstood a test almost supreme in the second game of the fourth sleeve. That lifted seven balls break, intimidate Murray broke him back ... and went to the front: 3-1. But this Sunday in windy in Flushing Meadows, service and Nadal's legs were not with the rockets that took Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Rafa took ball for 4-2, but failed an easy volea, Murray broke ... and the shadow of the order was extended on Ashe.
In the tenth game, Murray sentenced before a Nadal defeated, not defeated. Federer wants to follow in the footsteps of Tilden. We will have to see it with Murray.