After doing a very good match against Tsonga in the quarterfinals, Rafael Nadal Djokovic could do nothing
Rafael Nadal came within one step of the final Masters Bercy 1,000 semifinals before succumbing to Novak Djokovic, who displayed a hurricane play well above the level of Mallorca to win by 6-2, 6-3 hour and a quarter of the game.
The Spanish hit its peak in quarter-final against France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and fell in soft tennis, lacking aggressiveness and strength. Too weak against a huge Djokovic, who got all that was proposed and outpaced the Spaniard in all phases of the game. Proved to be the best player to the end of the year. The twenty duel between two and three of the world disappointed because Spanish was not up to the Serbian.
They are promised the audience happy Bercy, unaccustomed to being the best in the world go far in the its indoor season-ending tournament. He dreamed of a duel-like dog face Nadal and Djokovic who starred in the 1000 Madrid Masters last May, a party memorable. But they stayed with the desire for superiority of Djokovic and Nadal crushed the competition had no chance to hook into a meeting at which the Serbs had given cruising speed.
Nadal was more that of the first two games of the Bercy "brilliant" player who beat Tsonga. Against Nicolas Almagro and Tommy Robres the Spanish had a slab over, but his honor and his claw was used to survive and kill their rivals. Against Djokovic was unable to shake off the weight of the incisive and effective game of Serbian. "I got everything I've tried," he said happily "Nole", which until now had never passed the third round at Bercy. It is now well positioned to achieve its sixth title of the season, the having won two straight games after last Sunday Roger Federer in the final in Basel.
Djokovic showed he is the best player to the end of this season and wishes him great joy for the Masters tournament in London, where he'll defend the title achieved a year ago in Shanghai. The Serbian hungry jumped the track and determined not to let him eat Nadal ground. The first game had trouble keeping their service. Even went to the "Hawkeye" to claim a ball that the referee had given him against, which was a 15-40 for Nadal. The technique finally gave the reason why only a few millimeters. To the chagrin of Mallorca.
Since that setback, the two players with serve until 3-2. There began the greatest bump is remembered in tennis from Nadal in years. Yielded 14 points in a row, threw overboard the set. The bleeding did not stop there. After the 3-2 first set, "Nole" added seven straight games, three of them with Nadal's serve.
The pothole not only snatched the first set from Spanish but also mortgaged the second. Nadal was unable to return to the game. Every sprint, every attempt to recover the lost service was crashing with a genius for Serbian. Even enjoyed a breaking ball and that's saying a lot for a Nadal always eager to push its rivals, to bring them to the limit, to bring the duel in the psychological field. Djokovic was a lot for a modest Nadal. The Serbian needed no more than a match point to close the match and get into its tenth year end.
Monfils, THE OTHER FINALIST
Gaël Monfils will rival Djokovic after beating Czech Radek Stepanek 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. The final of the Paris indoor tournament for the second year will have a Frenchman, after it won last year Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Monfils was higher than Czech player in the first set and arranged for his service to win the second. But at that moment he shrugged his arm and allowed the fighter Stepanek stay alive in the match. Powered by a noisy audience, the French broke the serve of his opponent in the third game of the final sleeve, but passed it the next.
Until the ninth to snatch not stand again, as in the second set with his serve to close the match. This time he missed the French, who took a place in the final at the first pitch to achieve it. Robredo and Granollers, doubles finalists Catalans Tommy Robredo and Marcel Granollers qualified for the finals of the doubles tournament in Paris-Bercy Masters last 1,000 the season in the semifinals after defeating the Polish pair Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski 6-4, 6-2. In 49 minutes both Catalans got rid of the Poles, who left as seventh tournament favorites and a couple that are more established than Spanish