Rafael Nadal tops Marin Cilic 6-3 3-6 6-1 6-2 in the 4th 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
1st set.
Rafael won the set after he broke the Croatian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (4-2) game. Cilic tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) game. Anyhow, the Spaniard maintained the focus before winning the set 6-3.
2nd set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Cilic conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).
3rd 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).
4th set.
Nadal took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Cilic in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Rafael managed to boost his lead after breaking the Croatian in the 3rd (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 4th 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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Next Match: Rafael Nadal vs. Diego Sebastian Schwartzman – stats
Nadal will square off with Sebastian Schwartzman in the quarter.
This will be the 8th 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 3rd round in Indian wells back in March 2019.
Rafael Nadal in New York |
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- Rafael NadalNadal – Marin CilicCilic (6-3 3-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
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