Rafael Nadal and David Nalbandian will fight for the title in Brazil.
Rafa
Once again Rafa didn’t have a convincing performance to defeat the world no.111 in 3 sets after almost 2 hours.
“I didn’t play well today. It’s complicated to play well with these conditions, for my style of play,” said Nadal. “It’s complicated to control the ball and I’m struggling to be able to play aggressive and to be able to control the situation,” he said, adding that his knee hurt more on Saturday that it did earlier in the week.”
Still struggling with the knee
Rafa admits that he is still troubled with his knee to comment “When knee hurts, I cannot move well and when I cannot move well, I cannot hit the ball well.”
Nalbandian
David had an easier match to down Bolelli in just 85 minutes blasting 11 aces on 11 service games. The match was packed with breaks as Boleli lost his service 5 times on 10 service games and Nalbandian lost it 3 times.
“I started well, he was a little more inaccurate, and I quickly gained advantage [which] I kept throughout the first set,” said David. “I had the luck of playing well on the important moments and ended up winning,”
The Final
Head to head is 4-2 for Rafa that won the last 4. In theory he should be the favorite, but he is still struggling to much to find his best game, so David seems to be the favourite this time.
Rafa agrees in this interview (in Spanish)
