The Spaniard has beaten Berdych the last five meetings between the two • The Balearic only once gave his service • The Frenchman Pascal Maria was the umpire of the match · Spain has won 17 rounds in a row house
Rafael Nadal won the first point of the Davis Cup final 2009 to subdue Tomas Berdych in three sets. The world No. 2 displayed a good tennis on clay at the Palau Sant Jordi and took the first point of the heat to Spain against the Czech Republic.
Rafa Nadal, Spanish No. 1 team, defeated Tomas Berdych, Czech combined number 2, for an aggregate score of 7-5, 6-0 and 6-2 after two hours and twenty minutes of play in a match held on clay Palau Sant Jordi a garlanded and packed for the occasion.
The first set was a true reflection of what is expected of a Davis Cup match: alternation on the scoreboard, tension and definition detail. In this case, Nadal, who knows proficient with this type of situation, managed to send his locker the first set after 67 minutes of a 7-5 game and biased.
The clash began in the best possible way to Rafah, with a break in the opening game that made him drop the nerves before the start of a final. Berdych, however, was not the work of pulling all the work to the first exchange and reacted with a contrabreak.
The acting party won at the same time under tension and good example was a couple of pots of the ball doubtful that the Czech captain vehemently protested, so was the booing of the audience.
The Czech hammered Nadal with the whip which is drive, while Rafa to take the pressure holds steady, and summoning an optimum fitness. He learned to be patient, cheer and encourage a public timid at times and at key times of the set, the eleventh game, Berdych knew cornered in the back of the court, wherever the Czech suffer more, and signed a new rupture in the next game certify to join the set.
Rhythm of drums in the stands. Everything went smoothly. Especially after Rafa managed to take the first game after the restart with a game the rest blank. Again Berdych had the opportunity to make contrabreak, but this time Nadal not only avoided, but managed to raise more revenue. Al Balearic more into track, was more common to see him praying with his fist, well aware that things were going according to script expected. More into track, Rafa dominated the time of the game, while Berdych, who seemed to have forgotten how winners become missiles, barely put up a ball trying to return. The Czechs ended up paying the most cruel way possible: accepting a ROSC.
Berdych went to the locker room a few minutes to calm nerves, assimilate what he was falling down and think about a Plan B to be able to turn 180 degrees to match. Hit the track convinced he can do and the first point even appeared to do battle again, but nothing beyond reality. Nadal, whose feeling with the ball was more than obvious, again breaking the Czech's serve in the opening game. And in the third. One advantage that paved the way for a victory that was held together by a Palau delivered with the main stronghold of the Spanish combined. All the audience fired up Rafa song I gotta feeling. The first point to Buchaca!
After this triumph, Spain leads the final 1-0 to the Czech Republic and is at the expense of what happens in the second game of the day that measures to David Ferrer, No. 2 of the Navy, with Radek Stepanek, number 1 the combined Spanish