Rafa Nadal clinch superb win over Sinner, will face Schwartzman in Quarterfinal of French Open 2021.Â
French Open Result: The Spanish Rafael Nadal won, with a solid game, the young Italian promise Jannik Sinner, 19 in the world at 19 years old, by 7-5, 6-3 and 6-0 in 2 hours and 17 minutes.
And Nadal qualified to the quarterfinals of Roland Garros, in which the Argentine Diego Schwartzman awaits him.
The world number 3 had two moments of doubt, at the start of the match and midway through the second set, but the rest of the duel dominated the impetuous transalpine, who in spades displayed great tennis.
Nadal defeated the Italian one stage earlier than last year and will also face Schwartzman, who was his semi-final rival on the way to his thirteenth Roland Garros, one stage earlier.
Spanish King is back in Quarterfinal
The Spanish is already in the quarterfinals without having given up a set. In fact, with the three wins against Sinner he has already chained 35, three of his best streak on French clay, achieved between 2015 and 2018, and six of the record held by the Swede Bjorn Borg between 1979 and 1981.
“I have started well in the first two games, then I have too defensive and I have allowed him to have the rhythm, I have made some mistakes. But then I have re-engaged in the game, “said Nadal, who acknowledged having had another bad moment in the second set.
French Open Result
The game had things from a year ago, played on a cool night in the Parisian autumn. Then, the Italian also entered with impetus, who led Nadal to a playoff game in the first round, but little by little the Spaniard was cooking a victory that, in the end, was overwhelming.
This same year in Rome they lived a second duel and, again, Sinner’s resistance was more to less.
A Great battle to Wait for
The third duel came just minutes after Serbian Novak Djokovic. World number one, then forced to come back two sets against another young Italian promise, Lorenzo Musetti.
Although Nadal was immediately 2-0, the Italian displayed an aggressive and successful game that allowed him to score four consecutive games that made him grow. So much so that his tennis began to lose precision.
With the 5-4 in his favor he had service to win the set, but vertigo seized his nerves and he conceded the serve with a double fault.
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The reaction was automatic from Nadal. Eight games on his side in a very good version of the champion, which not only helped him to sign up the first round, but also to get the second on track.
With 4-0 the Spanish had his second moment of ‘absence’ that the Italian took advantage of to break Nadal’s service twice, who, beaten, woke up to score another eight consecutive games and leave the duel seen for sentence.
Now Schwartzman awaits him, one of the few players who has beaten him on clay. It was last year in the quarterfinals of the Rome tournament, in which the Argentine reached his only final in a Masters 1,000.
It is his only victory in eleven games against Nadal. Who last year in the Paris semifinals defeated him forcefully.
“He is a difficult opponent, he is playing well, but when you get to this stage of the competition you can’t think of having easy opponents,” Nadal said.
