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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

Manacor again to show that recovering his best, and in a good game, the Czech won with relative comfort.

Rafael Nadal reached the semifinals of the move to the Cincinnati Masters 1000 (United States) to beat Czech Tomas Berdych, 6-4 and by 7-5.

Two sets and Nadal needed just over an hour and forty minute game to complete the group of four players who seek a place in the final.

The party could not the entire set, endured the pressure and got the advantage with a 5-6 game in favor after a full of great plays.

Despite the fact that Czech is not easy to put it, not Nadal threw the towel in no time and reached it to the semifinals with a 5-7 in the second set.

Rafael Nadal and Tomas Berdych fought for the eighth time, the last four with victory for Rafa. After this match, Nadal leads the series with a 5-3 in their favor, but is 3-2 in lower courts hard.

Manacor is the face in the semifinals Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic, the fourth head of the series, who became a semifinalist in the 1000 Cincinnati Masters to beat in the quarterfinals at the French Gilles Simon, 6-4 and by 7-5.

In the other semifinal, Andy Murray, currently number two in the ranking, will face world number one against the Swiss Roger Federer. best start for the Majorcan, with a break in the first game and pressure the Czech minus many of its services, one of the strengths of Berdych.

In a demonstration of his best tennis and noting the level shown in the match against Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu, Nadal won the first set by 6 games to 4.

The Czech player started strong winning the second race the first game. Nadal was not intimidated and, despite going behind almost

THE NUMBER ONE BALEAR functioned, SUPO BE PATIENT, and trace A SIDE 0-4 in the second set

Nadal won a trace after Verdasco in the second set we saw the best match of the tournament so far manacorí will face Djokovic in the semis with

If someone could give Rafa Nadal a scare, that seemed to be the new Fernando Verdasco. The man who was raised in Mar del Plata, which led to a number to stand a brutal battle over five hours in the semifinals of the Australia Open. Tennis battleship by Gil Reyes, the coach of Agassi, in his laboratory in Las Vegas and scheduled to make war on the top-ten people (now number 7) by the technician Darren Cahill. The same as playing at home yesterday. The same missile that reached out to 240 km / h with the pumps that drive the land of the falling Magic Box. Weapons that could knock down anybody. Least one: Rafa Nadal.

The number one stopped Verdasco path at the same point in the same Nadal, Djokovic, Murray and Federer, the four lords of tennis, he was left stranded in the previous Masters 1000, the quarter-finals.

The Magic Box, filled this time breathing and electricity, was a sounding board that increased the power of the blows of two left-handed gladiators arm Bruno. Gluing two balls to the boundary line (the Hawk-Eye is not used on land, although there were some doubtful that another key point, because the balls are marked) to win.

Beijing, Monte Carlo, Rome ... Change scenarios, the result is repeated. This time the Roman clay saw as the best tennis player in the world added another chapter to his legend by defeating the second time in two weeks a volunteer Novak Djokovic (7-6 (2) and 6-2). With Roland Garros in three weeks hearing the hegemony of the world number one seems incontestable. Especially in light of what happened at the stadium Pietrangelli of the Roman capital, where he broke Nadal in straight sets in which emerges as his main rival in the season on clay.

Started the match strongly Nadal, aware that he was against a rival group. The start of the Spanish overflowed to Novak Djokovic to deliver a break in the first game of the match. Despite having to play against from the beginning, Djokovic took the first class and one sleeve igualadísima saved a ball from Nadal and ended in September, forcing sudden death. In the tie break, the moral unwavering Nadal came to light and ended up bowing to the Manacor Serbian.



But Djokovic did not want to give up and showed his best in the second set, forcing Nadal to force the machine to avoid losing ground. Nole the game started to remind her second set before Federer in the semifinals, starting the comeback that led the final. Without However, this time the resistance of Nadal was indestructible until two errors not forced Belgrade player game in the sixth led to a break, the beginning of the end for Djokovic.

After this break, the number three in the world under the arms so the following games and final liability fell comfortably Spanish side, who ended the match with an outstanding passing shot, the house brand. In this way, Nadal won his fifth tournament of the season, third in the 1000 Masters and 15 years of his career. Only Andre Agassi has raised more trophies such that the Spanish, already a very impressive streak of 30 consecutive wins on clay.

The next important date is in Madrid, only fifteen days before the start of Roland Garros. To win in Paris this year, Rafa Nadal to surpass Bjorn Borg to get his fifth consecutive victory in the French Open, something unprecedented to date. Judging to the superiority shown by Djokovic, the erratic Federer and Andy Murray in trouble on clay, no one seems able to stem the irresistible advance of the Spanish champion to the Olympic tennis.

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