TENNIS SCORES. Nadal bests Cilic in the 4th round of the U.S. Open

Rafael Nadal tops Marin Cilic 6-3 3-6 6-1 6-2 in the 4^th round in New York on Monday. Nadal will seek to keep on going in this event against Diego Sebastian Schwartzman in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Rafael won the set after he broke the Croatian in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (4-2) game. Cilic tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5^th (3-2) game. Anyhow, the Spaniard maintained the focus before winning the set 6-3.

2^nd set.

There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Cilic conquered in the 4^th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).

3^rd set.

Rafael was too good to drop just 1 game before breaking Cilic 2 times and win the set 6-1.

Cilic was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

4^th set.

Nadal took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Cilic in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Rafael managed to boost his lead after breaking the Croatian in the 3^rd (3-0) game before managing to win the set (6-2).

A crucial moment of the match was when Nadal won 4 consecutive games in the 4^th set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Spaniard scored 110 points vs. Marin’s 86 points.

The Spaniard served extremely well to win 83% of the points (44/53) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 48% points (19/40) on his second serve. Nadal fired 11 aces and he committed 6 double faults. Nadal was effective in converting 55% of the break points that he conquered (6/11). On the other side, Cilic didn’t lose the focus when converting 67% of the break points that he procured points (2/3). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this match, the head to head between Nadal and Cilic is 7-2 for Rafael.

Highlights Rafael Nadal vs. Marin Cilic U.S. Open – New York

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Nadal’s Interview

Next Match: Rafael Nadal vs. Diego Sebastian Schwartzman – stats

Nadal will square off with Sebastian Schwartzman in the quarter.

This will be the 8^th time that Rafael Nadal and Diego Sebastian Schwartzman square off. The head to head is 7-0 for Nadal (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Nadal won 6-3 6-1 in the 3^rd round in Indian wells back in March 2019.

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• Rafael NadalNadal – Marin CilicCilic (6-3 3-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Andrey RublevRublev (6-1 6-4 7-6⁶) – See score progression
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• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (3-6 6-3 6-2 7-6²) – See score progression
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• Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Rafael NadalNadal (0-7) – See H2H details
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