Swiss claims `The Master 'for the fifth time, something available only to Pete Sampras and Ivan Lendl • The pupil of Paul Annacone adds his 66 th title in his career • Follow maintaining an unfavorable H2H Nadal (14-8) · Rafa sum 1,000 points
Roger Federer won his fifth Masters Cup after downing Rafael Nadal in an intense final that was decided in three sets. A game in which the powerful Swiss service, full-ball effectiveness and freshness break leg were crucial to the Basel title number 66 will point to his credit.
The `Nadal-Federer was' lived the twenty-second meeting between these two artists of the racket on a movie set as the O2 in London, packed with 17,000 spectators for the occasion. Rafa or Roger or exhibited the best of its versions, but still did not disappoint the audience. The victory, this time was for the Swiss, who won by an aggregate score of 6-3, 3-6 and 6-1 after one hour and thirty-seven minutes. This is the fifth for Federer Masters Cup (he won previously in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007), who leads the ranking of triumphs in Masters Cup equaling the mark of Pete Sampras and Ivan Lendl.
Although face to face only twice in the last two years (both duels in the final of the Madrid Masters 1000), Federer and Nadal have extensively studied. So it is logical that both jump to the mat with the cards raised, no tricks up its sleeve to guard and trying to make your move the better. Federer was the one who won the toss and decided to start serving, seeing right choice was the Swiss during the game in this statistic. Throughout the first set, only yielded three points for Nadal who had a chance while he was successful with his serve, but that he saw Roger endorsed the manga based on good reversals and uploaded to the network. It was always key in the eighth game, after a Rafa untimely double fault, when the Basel won the long-awaited break in the first opportunity. Then, he had trouble closing the first set in his favor.
Nadal endured until his legs did
If a player you would expect any kind of comeback that is Nadal, always ready to flip a result however had been back since. The Spaniard reacted after the brief recreation and added a more aggressive about putting on the table a string of heights, speed effects and missing so far. To this was added a game `dark 'by Federer, the fourth of its second act, where the Swiss sent two doubles right into the hallway giving Rafa the break. He suffered the world's No. 1 to keep the rent, but knew how to take advantage of the positive dynamic that had sunk to force the third and final set. The story was waiting and now again dressed gala.
Tennis is a sport where you can go from euphoria to tears in just four strokes. Everything seemed to have become favorable to Nadal's epic, which at times recalled the combative player who solved the difficult compromise semi-final against Murray. But I was tired. He had said in the preview and now reflected that he would not bluff. Gotta have options as he accompanied the service, but Federer took advantage of a loophole in the minimum game lose respect. It was in the fourth game when the Swiss translated this domain and that was breaking the game. Nadal which deflated balloon reaches a certain height and must exploit. The cluster of matches of the season seemed to crush the coup, upload your legs and move cost him a win. On the other side of the track, flying Federer wisely. The Express 'Swiss' had enough fuel to reach the goal with his arms in the wind. A victory Nadal deserved to a certain will have more opportunities.