THE INJURY OF THE MATHIEU DA NADAL GO TO THAT DOMINABA 6-4 AND 3-0
What can be better than a small training to prepare for the quarterfinals. Less than one hour on the track (49 minutes) compared to French Paul-Henri Mathieu to confirm his passes (6-3 and 3-0). The injury to his opponent allowed Nadal reach its roof in Australia almost without sweat. Mathieu was dismissed from the track almost asking forgiveness from the 'number two' but assured that Nadal has already forgiven. A slight session before measured at the Finnish Jarkko Nieminen.
Because Mathieu raced to drift from the beginning. It stood as he could until the fourth game, the timing for Nadal to snatch the service. A game like the rest blank hallmark of the best game of the Spanish tennis player who had no intention of the French perdonarle one.
It was also the moment in which the physiotherapist made its first foray into track to meet the twin battered the French. His four-hour marathon in the previous round, compared to Austrian Stefan Koubek, began to pass bill. And it is that the injury, including 6-0 in the mourning and display of Rafa Nadal in the Rod Laver Arena, the party did not give much more of themselves.
The Balearic closed the first sleeve with his draw. Quite an unexpected ally in the beginning of this season. In second set there was only one racket on the track. Nadal chained three consecutive games, two of them white, with two 'breaks' included. An epitaph for a training session unexpected.
Nadal smiled at the media. The victory came in their plans but not how to achieve it. "Sorry for Henri (Mathieu), which was playing at a high level, but when you have a party as hard as he had in the previous round against Stefan Koubek, these things can happen," he said.
Nonetheless, Nadal said, will not change his usual preparation. "I will continue with my usual routine a little over an hour. Training More time will not change much," analyzed.
His opponent in the quarter-finals will be Jarkko Nieminen. A conducive to rival that has already stretched out on three occasions. "It's a very hard player and make things very difficult. Especially in this type of surface." Nadal was warns, before an opponent who does not appear to be in Australia for tourism, as has proved to end the dangerous German Philipp Kohlschreiber (29), 3-6, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (9 ), 6-3, winner in Auckland and one of the sensations of the beginning of the season. If Nadal maintenance level, its roof in Melbourne has the hours counted.