Tag: Nadal

Rafa is definitely the most important and successful player in the French Open history. His well known injury made him slip to a incongruous world no.5 rank. That poses a sort of threat to the tournament as we could witness a Djokovic-Nadal or Federer-Nadal quarter...ie....

We have an interesting draw in Madrid as all top players but Del Potro (viral infection) will take part to this edition. Nole had a bad draw to face immediately 2 dangerous players in the first 2 rounds (Dimitrov, Wawrinka). Roger has quite a clean...

What a terrible news.  Brad Drewett, the ATP Executive Chairman and President since 2012, passed away in his home in Sydney. Brad was a charismatic figure that was giving a tremendous support to tennis. Few months ago he announced he would have stepped down as he had...

Rafa is going for it! After a triumphant start of the season the Spanish legend seems to be confident to play more tournaments. The organisation of the Swiss tournament confirms that Nadal will participate to the event. This is another good news for the local...

The King of Clay made another 8! After winning his 8th title in Monte Carlo in 2012 Rafa catches up in Barcelona to win another tournament for the 8th time. This is Rafa's 54th career title. The final lasted 1 hour and 32 minutes with...

Seven-time champion Rafael Nadal discusses pulling double duty on Friday to reach the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell semi-finals

Another wonderful day for the King of Clay that defeats Paire and Ramos back to back. After beating Paire 7-6 (2) 6-2 in the morning Rafa dismisses Ramos dropping only 3 games in the afternoon in just 65 mnutes. “I played much better this afternoon than...

The King of Clay reaches his 6th consecutive final after his comeback. This time the victim is Milos Raonic that couldn't find any answer to Rafa that has managed to break Raonic 5 times out of 8 service games (that is astonishing). Nadal's supremacy was...

The King of Clay won another match in straight sets on the dirt, but this time... it wasn't that easy, at least at the beginning. Rafa was plying against the talented Frenchman that managed to break the Spaniard at the first time asking. Then the...

The King of Clay starts his title defence in Barcelona in style dropping only 6 games.  It took only 88 minutes for Rafa to defeat the Argentine. “The conditions today weren't comfortable,” said Rafa. “There was a very changeable wind that made it difficult to play...