novak djokovic

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.

Roma 2009 Photogallery

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Confident in their way to break the Serbian hopes an improvement in relations with the Federation when he left Pedro Muñoz

Rafael Nadal, who will start as number one team in the Spanish round of World Group Davis Cup with Serbia that begins this Friday in Benidorm, said he hoped not to have to face Novak Djokovic, because that would mean they would have won.

The fact that Nadal and Djokovic as a a number of their respective teams will cause confrontation between the two does not occur until the third day, Sunday, in which the heat and could be sentenced.

"Hopefully we did not have to play because that would mean that we won 3-0 but I think it is not going to happen and it will be a knockout igualada," he said. When questioned if he was lacking in games due to injury his last, as stated by the Serbian team, Nadal said he was ironic and rather the opposite.

"After the beating that I hit in Australia and, without rest, the other 'palizita' in Rotterdam with some great results, it is not going to believe that to do evil here," he said. Recalling that the Serbian captain Bogdan Obradovic's team had claimed that he knew what their weaknesses, the Mallorcan tennis was also ironic to respond "if called to see if the applies.

"We go out to play and luckily the last few years have given me good on clay and see if you can keep the good run," he continued.

On elections to the presidency of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation, held on Wednesday and is not Pedro Muñoz, who had a confrontation last year, Nadal said he hoped that from now on there more tranquility in the world of tennis.

"Everyone is free to come forward and if you do not will be for personal matters. The only thing that concerns us now is the tennis and the Federation together with the next four years with more calm than the previous," he says.

"The truth is that all this comes to wear and here we are a group of friends and it is unfortunate that sometimes external problems that have no peace of mind that usually accompanies the world of tennis," ended.

Nadal Ivanovic and the head of the U.S. Open series in 2008

The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal and serbia Ana Ivanovic premieres in a Grand Slam tournament of their respective terms of world number one, to be located on Tuesday as early favorites of individual Open table tennis United States.



According to the list released by the U.S. Tennis Federation (USTA), Nadal, newly crowned Olympic champion in Beijing, heads a select field that includes 10 Champions Grand Slams, including the former number one of ATP, Swiss Roger Federer, second-seeded in New York.

The U.S. Open, the last of the four biggest tournaments of the season, will be played from August 25 to September 7 in the courts of Flushing Meadows in New York.

Nadal, aged 22, was released on Monday in Firstly the ATP ranking, displacing Federer, who defended the position in the course of 237 consecutive weeks.

The Mallorcan tennis player has won eight of the last ten tournaments he has played, including two Grand Slam: Roland Garros and Wimbledon.

In Flushing Meadows will seek his ninth title of the year and 31 of his career in a tournament on fast tracks which so far has been very elusive.

The Spanish attempts to become the first man in the same year won Roland Garros, Wimbledon and U.S. Open, since the legendary Rod Laver do so in 1969.

Behind Nadal and Federer were located on Serbian Novak Djokovic (N.3), the Spanish David Ferrer (N.4), Russian Nikolay Davydenko (N.5), Britain's Andy Murray (n.6), the Argentinian David Nalbandian (N.7), Americans Andy Roddick (N.8) and James Blake (N.8), and Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka (N.10).

Nalbandián is the best Latino ranked among the 32 seeded men's table, and that includes the Chilean Fernando Gonzalez (n.11) and the surprising Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro (n.17), winner of four successive tournaments this year.

The serbia Ivanovic, 20 years and who won his first Grand Slam title this season in the French Open, ha ido rising as the foam and will be seeking its third parchment of 2008.

Behind her compatriot Ivanovic were seeded Jelena Jankovic (N.2), Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova (N.3), American Serena Williams (N.4), the twice U.S. Open champion and Russian Elena Dementieva (N.5), individual gold medal in the Olympic in Beijing.
The relationship of the 10 first planted in each branch is:

-- Women:
1. Ana Ivanovic (SRB)
2. Jelena Jankovic (SRB)
3. Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)
4. Serena Williams (USA)
5. Elena Dementieva (RUS)
6. Dinara Safina (RUS) 7. Venus Williams (USA)
8. Vera Zvonareva (RUS)
9. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)
10. Anna Chakvetadze (RUS)


-- Men:
1. Rafael Nadal (ESP)
2. Roger Federer (SUI)
3. Novak Djokovic (SRB)
4. David Ferrer (ESP)
5. Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)
6. Andy Murray (GBR)
7. David Nalbandian (ARG)
8. Andy Roddick (USA)
9. James Blake (USA)
10. Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)

Rafa Nadal knows no conformism. It is a word that does not fall within its vocabulary and an attitude that does not exist in their repertoire of responses. Whenever it reaches a target found a new target on the horizon. After adding his fourth consecutive Roland Garros complex faced without his assault on the grass of Wimbledon. But neither was relaxed after ending the outstanding account of Spanish tennis and track the Masters Series Toronto and Cincinnati set its sights on the daunting number one of the world. Now his dream has come true Olympic gold an end to their happy stay in the Olympic village in Beijing.



The gladiator Balearic imposed the passage from the beginning, as it has done ad nauseam Michael Phelps, who visited hours before his last game. With a solid tennis and safe from the bottom of the track, thanks to a scheme preclaro game, made to feel inferior in Gonzalez all times. Very intelligent, Nadal shirk fearsome right hand of stone and worked with the setback criterion on the last Olympic bronze to wind up the points with his tremendous right cross inverted.

Nadal masterly controlled the nerves and left in tromba to avoid surprises, with a burst of pride for number one that allowed him to become the first service break in the second game of the match. That ended the history of the first set, in which Gonzalez never found comfortable with the pace imposed by the Manacorense, committed too many errors and not forced abused its setback cut. A coup which allowed Nadal to move pleasure and show their ruthless side. The Spanish always won the duel of zambombazos.

In the second sleeve, settled in sudden death, Nadal kept the pulse strongly before a Gonzalez who clung to their service. The Chilean, thanks to the effectiveness of its initial services, managed to find some Right recompusieron minimally winning their faith. Nadal endured the pressure of going below on the scoreboard without hesitation and took out his caste and his winning mentality in the only delicate time of the encounter. It happened in the twelfth game with 5-6 and 15-40 against, in his usual know that with two balls to be lifted in September without batting an eyelid. A blow to morale Gonzalez, who suffered an attack of vertigo in the tie-break (7-2).

With a rival already obscured and helpless, he applied Nadal the puntilla mercilessly. Always had options to rest break, while services recorded with insulting ease. The bomber of Queen gave clear signs of desperation, improvising solutions are impossible, precipitated crazy rises to the network, to which Nadal was showcased to the delight of the bustling Chinese public. Gonzalez saved by the hair his first service (1-1) but was choking the third, which enabled the flagship of the Navy to sign the pleasure 4-1. Nadal already knew that the gold medal was returned to owner and demonstrate full control of the situation, saving two new balls at the break 5-2 and leaving details of his brilliant tennis exalted. A victory made in Nadal, who fits the gladiator in the history of Olympism Spanish.