Rafa Nadal submitted to David Ferrer in the final of the Conde de Godo and managed to write her name on the honours of the Barcelona tournament for the fourth consecutive year. The Manacor, that amount already 25 titles to its credit, continues enlarging his legend, both on clay (103 victories in his last 104 matches on this surface) and in this sport.
Nadal and Ferrer were measured at the seventh final between Spaniards who has seen the Godo in its history. The poster was luxury and the public, divided by favoritism, filled the stands of the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona. The duel did not disappoint and the festival held throughout the high Rafah, which was imposed on a marker by David comprehensive 6-1, 4-6 and 6-1 after two hours and fourteen minutes of play.
Rafa the clash which began on cyclone sunshine, destroying everything that Pilla in its path and reversing the attempts to survive by David. The Manacor played very deep, very comfortable, varying their raquetazos and targets in track to cancel rises to the network of Javea. Ferrer tried so timidly, but chocaba again and again before the Balearic wall. When the Alicante wanted to join the first game in his locker, Nadal had already been four (two breaks included) to his credit. In just over half an hour of play, Nadal was pointing the first set in his locker with a partial 6-1.
Ferrer put the emotion with an intense game Barcelona, maritime city, is accustomed to changing wind direction, but nobody expected that the party suffered in the second set. Ferrer charged batteries in the rest physically and mentally, was put on the track to play Nadal and beat strong and angled in an attempt to gain ground. Took advantage very soon and ahead in the bright, the party won in intensity and tension. Give and take that ended in the tenth game, when David will not quaked pulse for Rafa to win the set with a partial 6-4. The first set that gave way to Manacor in this tournament since the quarterfinals in 2006 in a clash before the Finn Jarkko Nieminen.
The tennis was gifted a third in September between these two great players, who put in the best of their competing versions. They played every point as if it were a match point with the intensity of the tournament and their dreams knowing that who managed to take command of the helm, take their ship to victory. Rafa took a small advantage at the beginning of September and was gradually undermining the morale of David. The tennis player is Balearic grew at the right time and had the confidence that he lacked his rival. It is believed, the assimilated and reflected on what the track with a 6-1 last part. Point, set, match, tournament and space reserved in the history of this tournament.
Nadal, living history of Godo Rafa Nadal is the only tennis player who has managed to win four times the Conde de Godo and more titulus what has succeeded so consecutively. Only Alex Corretjer, when the promise was still in Manacor, has succeeded in overthrowing Nadal in Barcelona. The fans of good tennis are already accustomed to seeing Rafa biting this trophy. In one year we still talking ...