victoria

The Spaniard achieved his fourth win against the Latvian player ° is one victory away from repeating the end of 2010

With less jitter suffered in the second round before the Slovakian Lukas Lacko, the world number one, Rafael Nadal, took on its promise to Latvian Ernests Gulbis (7-6 (3) and 6-3) and qualified for the Doha tournament semifinals, where they will face the winner of the clash between Russian Nikolay Davydenko, the defending champion and executioner of the Balearic Islands in 2010, and Croatian Ivo Karlovic, best server of the tournament so far (55 aces in two matches).

Nadal has taken the measure to Gulbis. Latvian, years ago one of the great hopes of the world of the racket but stalled midway, has never finished top with a win the good feelings and the resistance offered by the Spanish.

The quarter-final was the first game in which Nadal has won the Latvian tennis without dropping a part.

In the fourth matchup between all of the above ended with victory of Spaniard, Nadal pulled patience and experience. Especially in the first set. Gulbis master strokes alternating with blunders. In this instability also the concentration is the slab. While he held his talent against the Spanish, who won the first race in the tiebreaker.

September loss was a blow to Latvia, which fell in the second level and could not recover from the loss of her serve in the third game. Nadal closed the match after one hour and 52 minutes and stood in the semifinals, where they will play against Nikolay Davydenko.

Davydenko beat Nadal in the final in Doha last year

The Russian took a little more in his title defense Doha tournament won last year, after beating Croatia's Ivo Karlovic (6-3 and 7-5).

The Doha was the last time that both have faced so far. The Russian, now located in the No. 22 ranking and it took 76 minutes to knock down Karlovic, seems to have taken the step to number one in the world. In nine games played Nadal and Davydenko, the player of Ukrainian origin has won five. Among them, the last three contested on hard courts. Conde de Godo tournament in 2009, on land, was the last one looked at the Balearic beat his rival on Friday.

The world number one, Rafael Nadal, today signed its first victory in the new edition of the ATP Finals 2010 (Masters Cup) O2 Arena in London, after a costly comeback American Andy Roddick, 3-6, 7 -6 (5), 6-4.

The world number one, Rafael Nadal, today signed its first victory in the new edition of the ATP Finals 2010 (Masters Cup) O2 Arena in London, after a costly comeback American Andy Roddick, 3-6, 7 -6 (5), 6-4.

Rafa Nadal has won many games in London. He has been champion in Wimbledon champion Queen'sy-what must be added two other finals. And in the end the O2 Arena has had to rendírsele.

Match Review

Received as true stars, the flag was divided in their preferences even though the Spanish and British fans of Rafa, which are many, were becoming more and more to go. It was a match of high quality. By either party.

A Roddick saved his spectacular service (he served a 228.5 km / h in a game, the third party, not dropped below 225 for a total of 17 aces `').

A Nadal, the ability to sacrifice, that 'overalls' who knows when things get going well, when the shots are not as effective when the service returns to its old ways-in the first four games, their percentage, poor , 40% of first serves and three double-faults, when doubts win the game.

There will be time for the cabal, the amounts and combinations. For now, the important thing is that Nadal has already premiered in London Final. It was the objective pursued: to leave behind the harsh 0-3 with which left London a year ago. First step. Small, yes, but basic to continue to aspire to everything and breaking a dynamic that did not like.

Both players just gave concessions with his service and enjoyed each one breaking ball that did not take advantage.

Rafa Nadal made his debut at the U.S. Open with a hard victory against the Russian player Teymuraz Gabashvili 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-3, after two hours and 54 minutes. From the start of the first set began to sense that the party would not be easy to Nadal. The Russian player was very firm with their service and played very aggressive, and blows very hard levels (19 hits in the first race winners) and the network effect increases, which posed a difficulty in Spanish.

Both players just gave concessions with his service and enjoyed each one breaking ball that did not take advantage, leading to an irremediable to sudden death, which was very aggressive Nadal to earn the part of 7 - 4. The second set was a replica of the first. The Nadal was not the way service counter Russian player, although he had his chance in the twelfth game, which benefited from two set points with a 15-40, but not shaken Gabashvili pulse and forced a new sudden death, which again was for Spanish 7-4.

In the third set, the Russian player did not change one iota his strategy despite his handicap. He was still lashing at the first chance and a high percentage of success. Nadal got the desired break in the seventh game and that was the game 6-3 after the partial sign, after another break of service.

His rival in the second round will be the Uzbek Denis Istomin, ranked number 39 world ranking and came to New York after being a finalist in the New Haven tournament, losing to the Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovski the first final of his career. Both players have already faced this season, the only precedent between the two, in the knockout phase of Queen's, in a match that Nadal needed three sets to win 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4.

The Spanish Rafael Nadal made his debut in the Indian Wells tournament with a victory over German Rainer worked Schettler, who won 6-4 6-4 in one hour and 34 minutes.

Nadal, seeded third in the tournament, began his duel with the German player as a real whirlwind that led him to be placed at the first chance with a 4-0 in their favor after breaking his rival's service twice in a row.

But Schuettler awoke at that point in his lethargy and gradually things started to complicate the Spanish player, who under the pressure of his rival gave one of their services, but eventually took the set 6-4.

In the second race Rainer Schuettler continued to work like Nadal, who had to wait until the fifth game to break the German service. He tried to regain ground in the following, but the player was no longer Menorca for the work and ensured the win with another 6-4.
Another Spanish, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, was the surprise by winning the Croatian Marin Cilic, seeded eight, 7-6 (1), 6-0 in a match where the Hispanic player was intractable. The second set was a recital by player Albacete, forty-ninth in the world rankings, before a completely adrift Cilic.