The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal said in Beijing after losing in the semifinals of the China Open in straight sets 6-1 6-3 against Croatian Marin Cilic that "when things go wrong, the result turns out to be negative"
Nadal acknowledged that the match against Cilic had played "much worse than the previous days, especially the two previous games he was playing to a fairly high level."
"After make a good week, you can end up losing 6-1, 6-3, and we must improve for the next few weeks. You can lose but not this way because it means that you have lacked belief in yourself, "the Mallorcan tennis.
For the number two ranking in the ATP, the young Croatian tennis player of 21 years and with whom he had never encountered before, began the game "very strong" and taking "very good" all the first set, adding it was "virtually undisputed, we can always do evil, but it was very hard to win as he was playing."
"If that later in the second set, I have not been sufficiently successful, indeed, I was quite unfortunate, as the counter and try to create you more problems that I have created," said Nadal.
The Spaniards were happy as he had played "some day this week", which was in an ascending line, and "sad because I finished the tournament losing."
After falling in Beijing, Nadal will move to Shanghai, where the Masters 1000 starts tomorrow, in which the Spaniard will be the top seed.