Despite the embedded rosco by Davydenko in the first set, the Russian never · Nadal dropped the match in the stands was supported by his mother and his girlfriend Ana Maria Xisca • The last victory in the Balearic Islands in the circuit dating back to May 8, 2009 in 1,000 of Rome Masters
The first defeat of the year had to come ... but did so in the wrong moment. Rafa Nadal fell to Nikolay Davydenko in the final tournament Doha (Qatar) in a final that took the lead with a bagel in his favor, but escaped in the closing stages where his tank was in reserve. Davydenko won the twentieth title of his career to break the world number two by an aggregate score of 0-6, 7-6 (8), 6-4 after two hours and forty-three minutes of play in a match played on the table Khalifa Tennis Stadium purple.
Nadal jumped onto the track in his trademark gesture of concentration which has accustomed us, knowing that the end have to be won. The winner of the Balearic character was reflected in the track from the ball came into play. He made clear that going through a good moment, both physically and mentally, ramp displaying a good variety of strokes with which dominate a Davydenko grown in recent clashes with the Spaniard (he had won the last two duels played between them in Shanghai and London). The Russian tried to be aggressive, but was unable to defend a beautiful rival who was able to break the serve of Nicolay with the second ball break in which it ordered, carried out with a tremendous passing. It was not a mirage, let alone, Nadal was as a motorcycle and knew he could not release the accelerator. Rafa was giving a lecture on how print speed to the ball more to take control of the game and how the opponent moves from side to side of the track. The result? A 6-0, partial had never occurred in the previous eight games between them in just over half an hour.
In the opening game of the second set, Nadal double-faulted to Davydenko gave his first three balls break. The Russian took the gift (or Nadal saved the situation, if you prefer) and though the game lasted just as half of the entire first set, fell on the payroll of Spanish. The party, for the sake of tennis, it equalized when Nicolay channeled his mosque in a more aggressive game on track, picking fruit in the fifth game where he broke Nadal's serve for the first time in the match. But parties which are decided in the last games, hot moments, and that the Russian had doubts. He was 5-4 and with service, enjoyed a 40-15 ball and three sets but ended up giving the game for Rafa with a double fault inexplicable. The manga went to sudden death, a crazy tie-break and many alternatives. Davydenko wasted four break balls eidos of set (4-1, 5-4, 7-6), two-ball match Nadal (6-5, 8-7) and finally was the Russian who virtually matched marker, leaving everything to be decided in the third and final set.
Davydenko seemed to rise above adversity and wanted to scare Nadal in the final start of the set, where he scored the first game and enjoyed a white ball in the second break, however, failed to effect. Was Rafa who made no mistake, that at the first opportunity he had returned to drop one of those winners who seemed to have vanished art magic and went to the chair with advantage on the scoreboard. The Russian seemed lost and only seemed to intimidate Nadal when he gave up to go to the net, but Nicolay went back into the match with a break that again tied the contest (3-3). When the meeting exceeded the two hours of play, fatigue took its toll on both, as it no longer ran by the whips of the rival as before. This situation took advantage Davydenko, who in the tenth game took the first ball game it decided to finish turn the tables. Set, match and title to the Russian, and 20 total in his long professional history.