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The player was asked about the brawl at Barca-Real Madrid Super Cup

The Spanish Rafael Nadal, contesting the 1000 Cincinnati Masters, has rejected further on the incidents on the final leg of the match between Barcelona and Real Madrid, back from the Spanish Super Cup, but stressed that in life "things more important than winning or losing. "

Nadal, who followed the game in Cincinnati, where it competes, was asked about the attitude of Real Madrid's Portuguese coach, Jose Mourinho, who poked in the eye of Barca coach second, Tito Vilanova.

"It sets the party. It's my turn to say this. There is much tension in these games. It's hard to keep quiet because a lot of tension. But it is a sport and nothing else. There are things more important than winning or losing "stated Nadal, a keen football fan and recognized the Real Madrid.

The Spanish Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer will play tomorrow's final 1,000 of Monte Carlo Masters, defeating Andy Murray of Britain today and the Austrian Jurgen Melzer, respectively

The third Spanish final at the Monte Carlo Masters 1000 was marked today with the victories of Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer, beating Briton Andy Murray and Austrian Jurgen Melzer, respectively.

Ferrer was the first to achieve place in the final by beating Melzer 6-3, 6-2 in one hour and 19 minutes and reach his second final of a tournament in this category, since Rome in 2010. Murray beat Nadal 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 in almost three hours, the hardest game of the tournament, giving first a set since the 2009 final against Serbian Novak Djokovic.

It will be the second consecutive final in Monte Carlo between two Spanish players. Nadal won his sixth straight title last year by defeating Fernando Verdasco. In 2002, Juan Carlos Ferrero did the same against Carlos Moya.

Murray decided shortly before jumping to the track to face finally against Nadal, because their traditional problem in his right elbow kept him in doubt until the last minute. Tested before in a secondary runway and decided he was ready to play, and then to force withstood six-time champion in a great duel.

There was much at stake in today's meeting, because Nadal still had to prove that still the king, not only in Monte Carlo where tomorrow will pursue a new record of seven titles in a row, and which has now 38 victories at this track, just to defeat, if Murray not show that face he does not have complex.

The Scot seemed depressed after losing the first set but was not delivered in the second, which also started breaking the Spanish service, perhaps his weak point in the meeting today, and gave him six times, although he was able of add a further theft. Murray gave to whether that part as much as I could, but was worn excessively.

The match was brutal in terms of trade with several games that exceeded ten minutes. And that work over the Scottish noticed that he had to resort to the physio at 3-0 down in the third set. Nadal applied his routine and finally sentenced, but will more tired at the end that Ferrer.

David was tenacious as ever, and more decisive than Nadal and is presented in the final 17 games and lost only one set or assigned, but he knows the Manacor has a staggering 11-4 in their clashes, although the last quarter of Australia Open final this year fell from his hand, breaking a streak of seven straight defeats.

"I am very happy to be in the final. I do not care whether Rome or Monte Carlo Masters is 1,000. I did in Rome and wanted to do it here too," said Ferrer. "I was hoping do well on clay this season and I'm with the confidence to stop, I feel good physically and also tennis, and I hope to continue like this. "

Ferrer, a semifinalist in the principality last year, and winning this season's tournaments in Auckland and Acapulco, started with a vengeance against Melzer, because in the last two meetings, and Paris Bercy Roland Garros last year, the Austrian will had passed.

The match did not start well at all for Ferrer, to let her dominate rival 3-1, but from there the Alicante was consolidated in the bottom of the track to mark the rhythm of the match and win the first set in 38 minutes.

Melzer, the first Austrian to reach this round since Thomas Muster won the title here 15 years ago, tried everything, the famous left with those who reached the semifinals of Roland Garros last year, and multiple variations in the exchanges. All unsuccessful before the rocky play the sixth player in the world that once gave only his serve, although Melzer disposed of nine times to break it.

With the victories of Ferrer and Nadal meet in the tournament maximum Monaco. Again there will be at least one Spanish in the final, as has happened in the past six years (Nadal) and in eight of the last nine (in 2004 not complied with this premise).

Over 50% of users choose the player MARCA.com Nadal as the best Spanish athlete of the decade ¯ `Rivals' as Gasol and Alonso left with only 13% and 12% of the vote respectively · Casillas and Xavi are following

Rafa Nadal is for an overwhelming majority of users MARCA.com the Spanish athlete of the decade draws to a close. Over 50% of the votes collected by this site point to the player ahead of Spaniard Pau Gasol, Fernando Alonso, among others.

In MARCA.com survey, which involved more than 50,000 Internet users, Nadal almost 20,000 votes ahead of his nearest rival, Pau Gasol. The Lakers player adds about 7,000 votes while Fernando Alonso, third, accumulated nearly 6,000.

The two players in the Spanish football team proposed as athletes of the decade, Iker Casillas and Xavi Hernandez, rank fourth and fifth respectively, while virtually equally between them. Just a 0.1% separate the two players.

The survey of the best foreign athlete of the decade led the main rival Rafael Nadal over the years: Roger Federer. The Swiss tennis player, with almost 30% of the vote, ahead of Valentino Rossi, Zinedine Zidane and Leo Messi, who around 15% each. Surprisingly or Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt, both with 6% of votes, the top appear.

For his part, former Spanish tennis player and former captain of Spain's Davis Cup, Emilio Sanchez Vicario said Moya had a great race and it is a "reference" in the Spanish tennis.

The Spanish Rafael Nadal, world number one, has now set his compatriot Carlos Moya, who has confirmed his retirement from tennis at age 34 as a "pioneer" of the sport, and stressed that "deserves a grand farewell and recognition of all. "

Nadal, who has made these statements just before traveling to London to compete in the Masters 2010, added that Moya, who will share a great friendship, "has achieved very important things in the world of tennis." "It has been number in the world, how difficult it is, has won major world tournaments, Davis Cup and has contributed much more to Spanish sport," he explained.

The uncle and coach of world number one player, Toni Nadal, also referred to the withdrawal of Carlos Moya, and is claimed to be a tennis player "that has marked an era." "He played very well on hard courts when it seemed impossible to do for a Spanish player. In its own way, changed a bit the mentality of the game, showing that it could be good not only on clay, but also on hard surfaces," said technician.

Feliciano Lopez: "It's a sad day"

The tennis player Feliciano Lopez manchego has said that on Wednesday "is a sad day" after Carlos Moya has confirmed that announced his retirement from professional tennis. "Today is a sad day .. we will one great."

"'Charly' says goodbye to tennis after a career that does not need to remember .." says Toledo in your profile 'twitter'.

The Balearic tennis, Roland Garros champion in 1998, hang up the racket after winning 20 titles and have played another 24 final.

Emilio Sanchez Vicario, "Moya is a very important reference of Spanish tennis"

"Carlos is a very concerning importantly, former world number one, winner of `` Grand Slam,''Davis Cup,''and a `` carrerón'm not going to find out now, "Sanchez Vicario said the Spaniard tennis player, winner of Roland Garros in 1998.

Also the former Spanish Davis Cup captain said Moya "had the misfortune to end because of a physical problem, however this does not leave out a successful career that led him to become the first Spanish man to reach the ranking first in the world 1998.

Escañuela: "It's a legendary player who will never leave us"

The president of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation (RFET), José Luis Escañuela did not hesitate to qualify as a player Carlos Moya "legendary" and said his memory pervivirá many years for having achieved national tennis place at the top. "There has never been worse used the term withdrawal today. Moya is a legendary player who will never leave us and will always be in our memory," he said in Speaking to Europa Press at the end of the press conference where he announced his farewell Mallorca.

Moreover, the chief executive of the Federation was delighted that the Spaniard was dismissed in Seville, in the National Master, because in this city was the great protagonist of the second Davis Cup, won in 2004. "So much for the RFET as for me, I lived the final in Seville as the Andalusian Federation president, that moment was unforgettable," he said.