Post by mesi10 on Jan 11, 2024 1:09:38 GMT -5
The Balearic Rafael Nadal recovered from the hot flush on Wednesday, when his match against the Argentine Diego Schwartzman in which he was at a disadvantage was postponed due to rain, and this Thursday sealed his pass to the semifinals of Roland Garros, where the Argentine Juan Juan Martin del Potro.
In a match that lasted three hours and 42 minutes - two hours played on Wednesday and one hour and 42 minutes on Thursday - the world number one managed to bend the knee of the tough and tough Argentine player, against whom he had to come back from a set against (4-6) winning 6-3, 6-2 and 6-2 in the following ones.
Nadal, who saw his streak of 37 consecutive Binance App Users Data wins at Roland Garros cut short due to Schwartzman, improved his performance after the two stoppages on Wednesday afternoon due to rain. He even acknowledged after the game that he had been "a little lucky" with this weather circumstance.
"Sometimes you also need a bit of luck at a given moment like I had yesterday due to the rain break to reflect, clear your ideas, get rid of your nerves at a certain moment and see things with a little more clarity" , the Spanish admitted.
In the first interruption, the Spanish tennis player lost the first set (6-4) and was even down 3-2 in the second set.
When the match resumed 45 minutes later, Nadal turned the score around in just 20 minutes and went 5-3 just at the moment when the postponement of the match until this Thursday was declared.
With the sun that rose this Thursday at the Philippe Chatrier, the Spaniard took out the hammer and controlled the aggressiveness of his friend Schwartzman, twelfth in the world.
"It has been very difficult. He is a great friend (Schwartzman), a great worker. I wish him all the best for the future. After the rain break I played much better, more aggressive," he said at the end of the game.
In a match that lasted three hours and 42 minutes - two hours played on Wednesday and one hour and 42 minutes on Thursday - the world number one managed to bend the knee of the tough and tough Argentine player, against whom he had to come back from a set against (4-6) winning 6-3, 6-2 and 6-2 in the following ones.
Nadal, who saw his streak of 37 consecutive Binance App Users Data wins at Roland Garros cut short due to Schwartzman, improved his performance after the two stoppages on Wednesday afternoon due to rain. He even acknowledged after the game that he had been "a little lucky" with this weather circumstance.
"Sometimes you also need a bit of luck at a given moment like I had yesterday due to the rain break to reflect, clear your ideas, get rid of your nerves at a certain moment and see things with a little more clarity" , the Spanish admitted.
In the first interruption, the Spanish tennis player lost the first set (6-4) and was even down 3-2 in the second set.
When the match resumed 45 minutes later, Nadal turned the score around in just 20 minutes and went 5-3 just at the moment when the postponement of the match until this Thursday was declared.
With the sun that rose this Thursday at the Philippe Chatrier, the Spaniard took out the hammer and controlled the aggressiveness of his friend Schwartzman, twelfth in the world.
"It has been very difficult. He is a great friend (Schwartzman), a great worker. I wish him all the best for the future. After the rain break I played much better, more aggressive," he said at the end of the game.