Rafael Nadal bests Leo Borg 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in Bastad on Tuesday. Nadal will try to keep the momentum against Cameron Norrie in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes. The Spaniard won this tournament once in 2005. Here you can see his history at this event.
The Spaniard added to his prize money € 3,950 after conquering this match. He has already won € 10,165 after this win. If he wins the next match, Rafael will add € 7,345 to his earnings to get in total € 17,510 in total.
Highlights Rafael Nadal vs. Leo Borg Nordea Open – Bastad
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Rafael scored 61 points vs. the Swede’s 48.
Nadal
The Spaniard served extremely well to win 82% of the points (32/39) behind his first serve, and he won 64% points (9/14) on his second serve. Rafael was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (2/4).
Borg
On the other side, the Swede wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Nadal and Borg is 1-0 for Rafael.
Draw and next match H2H: Rafael Nadal vs. Cameron Norrie – stats
Nadal will fight against Norrie in the 2nd round.
This will be the 6th time that Rafael Nadal and Cameron Norrie fight against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Nadal (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Nadal grabbed in the 4th game (3-1) prior to eventually winning the set (6-3).
Rafael converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 10th game (6-2 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Nadal didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 64 points. Rafael was the one to win the set after conquering 14 points more than the Swede (39-25). Nadal conceded 5 points on serve (21-5). Regarding the other side of the net, Leo conceded 18 points on serve (20-18).
Nadal commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Leo Borg in the 2nd game (2-0). Rafael reinforced his lead after breaking Borg before winning the set (6-4).
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Also, on the other side, Rafael didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 45 points. It’s worth to point out that, Rafael won this set even if he scored less points 1 than Leo (22-23). The Spaniard dropped 7 points on serve (20-7). on the other side of the court, the Swede conceded 2 points on serve (16-2).
Tennis Scores in Bastad
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (6-3 6-3)
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Alexandre MullerMuller (7-5 7-5)
- Sumit NagalNagal – Elias YmerYmer (6-4 6-3)
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (5-7 7-63 6-3)
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Federico CoriaCoria (6-1 6-3)
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Jaime FariaFaria (3-6 6-1 6-4)
- Rafael NadalNadal – Leo BorgBorg (6-3 6-4)
- Timofey SkatovSkatov – Taro DanielDaniel (6-77 6-2 7-64)
- Henrique RochaRocha – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (4-6 6-2 6-2)
- Pavel KotovKotov – Cristian GarinGarin (6-4 6-76 6-1)
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Jozef KovalikKovalik (7-64 6-4)
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-2 7-6(3))
Upcoming matches
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Casper RuudRuud (0-4) – H2H details and stats
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Sumit NagalNagal – Mariano NavoneNavone (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Rafael NadalNadal (1-4) – H2H details and stats
- Andrey RublevRublev – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Pavel KotovKotov – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (0-0) – H2H details and stats