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The first set was decided in favor of the Spaniard in sudden death · Tsonga rallied and swept the next two with a 6-4, 6-1

Rafael Nadal was unable to qualify for the semifinals of the Queen `s, having lost (6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-1) with Frenchman Tsonga.

The Spaniard, who struggled to squeeze into the top eight against Stepanek, blamed fatigue and was traced to the nineteenth racket on the planet. The Frenchman punished since the beginning of the Balearic with their service, a whole slab to the tournament champion in 2008, and ended up bowing in just over two hours.

The first set, which had to be postponed the start by rain, was extremely even. Both contenders service safeguarded against all odds. Especially required was that of Le Mans in the eleventh game, having put on the ropes to the recent won Roland Garros in the sixth.

A threatened the break 0-40 on the serve of the Gaul, but the Le Mans again make your 'first' a gun and saved the last ballot with two 'aces', for a total of 16 in the opening set, which was decided in sudden death where the Spaniard was thinner.

Far off to be at a disadvantage, the fifth-seeded of the tournament began with a desire for revenge, another air over the grass in London. A 'break' in the first game of the second set as Nadal warned that he would suffer in the next exchange, an ordeal.

Although the Spaniard was able to put the tables quickly, a new rupture of French in the ninth game put things on a plate to force the third set, which not long in coming, because then closed the set.

The ghosts that have accompanied all season Nadal again fly the skies of the capital. Crestfallen, without power and at the mercy of his rival, quite the opposite of what offered a week ago on Paris, he most city of light for anyone.

Tsonga, who had won only until this Friday when the winner of ten 'great', the work was not to waste a chance like that in front of him and pressed the accelerator, causing more blood in the wound of a head Nadal and at Wimbledon.

Tsonga will seek his second final of the season after losing in Rotterdam, against Britain's James Ward, 216 of world and invited by the organization of the tournament, which took two hours and seven minutes to break the Frenchman Adrian Mannarino (6-2, 6-7 (14) and 6-4).

In this exhibition tournament on outdoor hard courts also participate Swiss tennis player and world number one Roger Federer, the Swede Robin Soderling, Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Russian Nikolay Davydenko.

The Spanish tennis world number two, Rafa Nadal is in Abu Dhabi to participate in the Capital World Tennis Championship to be held between 31 December and 2 January in Abu Dhabi.

In this tournament display on outdoor hard courts also participate Swiss tennis player and world number one Roger Federer, the Swede and executioner of Nadal at Roland Garros, Robin Soderling, Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Russian Nikolay Davydenko.

The system of tournament competition against Soderling faces Wawrinka and Tsonga to Davydenko in the quarterfinals, while Federer and Nadal expect the winners to face them in semifinals.

Unseeded Spaniard was brought before his trip with Carlos Moya and after the session he confessed he was "very pleased" with the work done during the month of December although he has not had many days off after winning the Davis Cup.

After 194 minutes of game play against Nicolas Almagro, Rafael Nadal consumed another 140 minutes of play against Tommy Robredo • The Hostalric managed to win a set in the sixth Balearic matchup between · Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, Rafa's next opponent

Rafael Nadal won the ticket to the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 in Paris (France) after the break in the second round to Tommy Robredo. The world No. 2, giving a better level than in their first game in Parisian land face Nicolas Almagro, the only survivor of the-Navy-in the tournament.

Rafael Nadal (2) beat Tommy Robredo (14) in the fratricidal duel fourth round of the tournament won by an aggregate score of 6-3, 3-6 and 7-5 after two hours and twenty minutes of play in the shock that evening opened the day on Center Court of Paris-Bercy complex. After a tentative first games where both players were studied from the bottom of the track, the remaining options came when they began to take risks. First it was Nadal in the fourth game, who moved his Robredo through from side to side of the track, enjoying a break ball that carried into effect. In the next game was Robredo who, dropping the right to take the lead in the points, posted up two balls that do not break materialized. The balance is not off balance until the eighth game, where Nadal, summoning the motto that always accompanies him (not to a single ball lost) struggled and worked a split that would earn post to take the first set of his locker.

Despite being the marker in his favor, Nadal remained concentrated as sent the script, but for the sake of entertainment ever to leave him out of authentic items for the archive. Robredo, however, threw in the towel at any time and still swimming against the tide, holding up the party across the network. Even managed to break the Balearic service in the fourth game, then bet on the attack from the bottom of the track, climb in and defend option was on the tape like a wild boar. Taking as a machine and defining with surgical precision, Robredo was able to match the race and force a third set.

After getting the first set in his favor after five previous clashes against Nadal, Robredo looked at Javier Duarte telling him from the stands that was the way forward. A path nevertheless difficult to walk because the world No. 2 did not give any respite option. Rafa again appear intractable on his serve and Tommy had to get the best version of tennis to keep your rope. Despite the marathon match, the level of tennis was growing. No margin of error. Against the Ropes, in the eleventh game of the match, the Spaniard double-faulted it meant leaving with 5-4 and Robredo to finalize the service crash. However, the Catalan will doubts entered the wrong moment and granted a Nadal contrabreak that which re-emerged phoenix, won three consecutive games (two breaks included) and sealed his move to the quarterfinals of the rhythm Come on. In the quarterfinals, expect the current defending champions: the local hero Tsonga.

Jo-Wilfred Tsonga (8) won the duel with fellow Frenchman Gilles Simon (11) by a score of 6-2, 6-3 in just 52 minutes of play in a crash played in the morning hours of the Center Court complex in Paris Bercy. Nadal and Tsonga have been measured to date on four occasions, winning three of the Spaniard and French.

The Russian prevented Rafa won his tenth Masters Series

Crandon Park filled its 14,000 locations for the crown Latin Boy, the boy Hispanic mane as Antonio Banderas, look gang member with handkerchief on the forehead and gestures winner. The guy who, after falling the brazen Djokovic, the emerging Tsonga Don Perfect Federer and the boy home, Roddick should take the cup glass credited to the winner of the Masters Series in Miami, the fifth Grande. That it was resisting the Spaniards.



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But at the party Rafa Nadal was leaked yesterday by the anti-glamour of the tennis circuit. Nikolay Davydenko, the Russian who sparked the hurricane illegal betting on the ATP with his suspicious withdrawal in Sopot, decided claimed in a large arena. And what Nadal paid. He suffered the wrath of tennis downloads of Ukrainian origin. It provided for a party of substance, played fire, but what was not expected was that Davydenko was a pediment. Let them all and returned well. Have your percentage of points earned with first service be raised to 80%, which was thrown to kill the network in terms saw loophole, that his right to travel cross as a howitzer.

Nadal, who always leaves a bite to achieve a break at the earliest, and saw how in the third game could break Davydenko (2-1). He returned (2-2), but not undermined the confidence of the man who avoided the sponsors. In the shadow quick and clever damaged the coronation of Nadal predisposed to the tier of Miami. The Russian managed another break for 4-3 and made it clear that he would seriously. The first beam was closed at 6-4.

In the second, in a seen and not seen since going 4-1 and 6-2 took a little fall. "Davydenko played unbelievable. And before that there was nothing to do," summed laconic Nadal, leaving Miami with more points on Djokovic and less on his career by reaching Federer. But without the trophy. The surprise invitation to the party prevented finished with nine months of drought.