Showing posts with label clay court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clay court. Show all posts

Sunday, April 26, 2009

NADAL WON HIS FIFTH BARCELONA TITLE


Rafeal Nadal, top seeded won his fifth straight Barcelona Open title on sunday beating his rival David Ferrer 6-2, 7-5. Both of the players are from spain and they are good friends apart from tennis. Ferrer was not consistent with his serve as Nadal easily broke his serve in the first set. Rafeal Nadal have just won his fifth Monte Carlo Masters final and now he has won his Barcelona open for the fifth time.

Rafeal Nadal becoming the hottest guy for this season and he can become a giant in Tennis. Rafeal played really well and he didnt made any error for the opponent to take charge. While David ferrer made too much of mistakes to take advantage of rafeal Nadal. Normally ferrer wont make mistakes but these mistakes may came of from his pressure against nadal. Nadal won for the 35th time in 44 finals.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

RAFEAL NADAL IS ALL SET FOR FIFTH TITLE IN BARCELONA


Rafeal Nadal will face Davis ferrer in the finals on sunday. Nadal won against the Davydenko 6-3,6-2. It was a very easy match match said Nadal. He like this past year as he was started good in the clay court and he will continue to do it again and again. He won his 24 clay court match consecutively. He is the "king in clay". Nadal feels that he can win the title this time too as the match on sunday is just a repeat of last season. Ferrer is a good player and he needs to work very hard to win against Rafeal Nadal. Nadal has not dropped his serve in the tournament and saved all six of Davydenko's break points in windy conditions. Ferrer rallied to defeat Fernando Gonzalez 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (5) in Saturday's semifinals.

Friday, April 24, 2009

NADAL MEETS DAVYDENKO IN BARCELONA SEMIS

Rafeal Nadal will meet Nikolay Davydenko in the coming semifinals in Barcelona Open. Nikolay Davydenko rallied for a 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-2 victory over Radek Stepanek on Friday to reach Semifinals against Rafeal. Nikolay Davydenko is the third seeded and he need to face the top seeded and the best player in clay court. Fourth seeded David Ferrer and Fernando Gonzalez of chile will meet in the other semifinals match. Davydenko is an excellent player of both backhand and forehand. He has excellent timing sense and very high energy level. He made slight mistakes in the quarterfinals and he is gaining to recover from it. He knows that if he makes mistakes in the upcoming semifinals against Rafeal, then he needs to pay for it.

Davydenko used strong returns to break twice more in the third to set up a meeting with the top-ranked Nadal.

The Spaniard is vying to follow up his fifth straight Monte Carlo Masters trophy with a fifth straight title at Barcelona.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

NADAL CLOSING TO HIS VICTORY IN BARCELONA OPEN


Rafeal Nadal is the strongest player ever tennis have seen in clay court. He has excellent temperament especially in clay court. He won his 23rd straight match on clay court on thursday, beating Christophe Rochus of Belgium 6-2, 6-0 to reach Barcelona Open Quarterfinals.

The top-ranked Spaniard is looking to win a fifth straight Godo trophy in Barcelona. He got one step closer when quarterfinal opponent Nalbandian withdrew with a right hip injury on Thursday.

Nalbandian is a fantastic player of this generation and he has won over Nicolas Almagro of spain 6-3, 6-4.

Rochus wilted in the warm conditions, losing his serve twice in the opening set as Nadal overcame a number of unforced errors.

Nadal, who has lost only three of his past 131 matches on clay, stretched to his right to send a backhand passing shot beyond Rochus to open the second set with a break. He closed it out on his second match point when the Rochus sent a backhand wide.