Nadal dispatches a desperate Gonzalez, who only made 12 points on the resumption will play on Sunday (18.00 pm), for the second consecutive year, the semi-finals will be measured with Argentine Del Potro, who has won the last two games, and will recover after the world number two
The return to the court, 38 hours and 40 minutes later, left things very clear. Rafael Nadal took the lead with the good that lay on the evening of Thursday, when the last match was suspended due to rain again, and qualified for the second consecutive year to the semifinals of the U.S. Open. Fernando Gonzalez, who faced the resumption with a set down and 2-3 in the tiebreaker of the second, fell 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2), 6-0. Nadal will play on Sunday against Juan Martin del Potro, who has won the last two clashes. It will from 18.00 in Spain just before the measurement Federer and Djokovic. The final Monday. The rain, which fell back slightly during this quarter-final in installments, has left another solution.
Gonzalez was a disaster on the restart. Threw three consecutive right away and other backhand into the net, giving the tiebreaker. In the third part, with his service, he sent two balls beyond the line and made two double faults. In a few minutes, just 35, the meeting was terminated. Only 12 points added to their crop.
No sooner had history in the third act of mourning. What was left was fighting in the turbulent late Thursday, with two suspensions and a series of chances which could well have left Nadal with a gap in the most important marker already brought. Remember that ball that was about to set to clinch the second set at 6-5 up, before a paper bag flew through the center of the court. The judge, subject to regulation, forced to repeat the point and the meeting was doomed to a new sudden death.
The man who on Tuesday, whatever happens in the semifinals, will regain the world number two succumbed to Murray after the Cincinnati tournament, captured the superiority already advocated in the first two acts. Gonzalez he collapsed. Had done enough to row in the first two sets and delay a fight in which she always sent his opponent. True, he had two balls to take the first set with 5.4 above. An accident at a match in which he could not resist the steady erosion on his backhand, which was desperate for the ability of the Spanish to bring back all the balls in a display of speed and endurance.
Nadal followed with an overload in the abdominal area, which needed to be addressed again on Thursday after the first set. The care is maximum and has decided not to contest the Davis Cup semifinal against Israel, for which he himself had postulated. Even so, less physical strength, the main guarantee of their game, can cause shock by returning balls impossible for any mortal. Even so, lives on the pretense of taking home what would be his seventh major.
In addition to the considerable distance between both quality players, it seems clear that Nadal also knows how to handle emotions better. It is not easy for Agassi and Federer.
It would also be the third Spanish who conquered the U.S. Open, which already achieved Manolo Santana (1961) and Manuel Orantes (1975). A major challenge for which part at a distinct disadvantage. Del Potro resting from the afternoon of Friday, Federer and Djokovic make it since Wednesday. Details are not far from the ultimate success impossible for a player indestructible, used to rise above itself, the greater the adversity. players endure the waiting, the uncertainty about when they can get back on track. Gonzalez, a visceral type, which has been gradually taming her tennis, capitulated at once, as long truce if it would have been unbearable.
Nadal reaches the penultimate round with just two lost sets. He returned to the level I left, but I need time to regain rhythm. I enjoy and would do more but I hurt the abdominal. Since returning to competition after the tendinitis in the knee that kept him 73 days of low, Nadal has lost only two games in the semifinals at Cincinnati against Novak Djokovic, the fourth in the world, and Montreal in the quarterfinals, against Juan Martin del Potro, sixth in the ladder. The Argentine government will be responsible for monitoring gauging the extent of a youth who is now just two games to become the seventh racquet history to win the big four, after Budge, Perry, Emerson, Laver,