Nadal beats Querrey at Madrid - Davis Cup tennis event

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September 20, 2008

Nadal overlapped with Querrey since the height of Madrid

* Bate to the U.S. in more than three hours of match (6-7, 6-4, 6-3 and 6-4)
* After the victory, once again demonstrates his annoyance by playing more than 500 meters

Rafael Nadal celebrated the victory.

MADRID .- Sam Querrey arrived in Madrid to cover the lower James Blake. And, as expected, the Californian offered more resistance to his fellow New Yorker tired. Supported by the memory of the nearby U.S. Open, where he also was able to snatch the first set to world number one, he raised the game like that then, tough on track, shamelessly to the attack, obtaining the maximum benefit from a service in Madrid , To more than 500 meters above sea level, it significantly increases your speed. [Narration and statistics]

Something only evident in the difficulties faced by Nadal to subtract during the first two lines, because the speedometer installed in Las Ventas did not work until the ninth game of the second part.

By then, the speed of Querrey, their ability to move in all directions and its easy adaptation to the sliding gravel-all these characteristics in an improper U.S. 1.98 m. - had reduced their harmful effect on the game Nadal.

The Balearic Islands, renewed motivation for the occasion, still not provide the imposing image of destroyer hit during the middle of the course, between Roland Garros and Wimbledon. The power of his arm, speed and the boat of his ball does not punish the same way. Even so, looked the propitious moment, the initial doubts of his opponent, to launch their attack to regain control of a match uphill after the start of threatening Querrey.

Very comfortable with his service, the U.S. best result obtained in 2008 on a gravel track (quarter-finals at the Monte Carlo Masters Series), the duel turned into an exchange of blows, where their own, more planes, more deep, dominating a Nadal too far from the bottom line, a little aggressive, unable to add a single point of ‘break’ in the whole part.

And doubts grew after an unexpected error, a double fault in the tenth point of the game tiebreaker with serving tray at two points in September to its rival. Querrey took the second with his serve, so, of entry, giving life to the shutdown of the U.S. team. In Britain, those who are still at least Nadal increased their disbelief at seeing Querrey to break out of the Spanish just started the second race. Again stuck on the runway, taking advantage of short balls and half height Nadal, Querrey widened the distance.

Those same skeptics checked immediately after the responsiveness of Nadal but also that Querrey, 20 years old and world number 39, still must get used to live with the pressure and dizziness in some semi-Davis Cup debut in the competition versus Nadal - Before the world number one. “The turning point in the match came when I returned the” break “at the beginning of the second part,” admitted after Querrey, a fact later confirmed by Nadal.

“When I came back to get back into the match, and so did the audience,” added defeated. And is that a set against not enough to worry to Nadal. “That is why we win so many games,” Querrey analyzed. “No matter if you lose, it is very hard.” The success of the U.S. with the lines disappeared, squandered its advantage and at the instant of the decisive set, with Nadal by subtracting the partial (5-4), chained six other errors by a single service winner.

Fulfilled the objective of regaining balance in the scoring, the champion of Roland Garros and Wimbledon back to settle the encounter. Almost always in ascending level, especially on clay, the ball of the Spanish began to regret too much for the player bolting from San Francisco, the limit of his physical condition when Nadal did not finish but waking up, to fine-tune your machine worn but higher In any case to that of its rivals. “The boat of his ball does not make me much damage because I like beating up the man,” said Querrey. “But even so, their blows are still very ‘heavy’.”

The Mallorcan acleró step, he managed to get to the center of the track to his rival to take advantage of a double fault and a long right hand to finish a new ‘break’ with its setback crossfire. The aggressive response from Querrey gave him a point to recover the break. Too late. Nadal did not have brakes (4-1). Another double fault and a blow to the network in the ninth game of the fourth September helped Nadal to complete the work. It was the sign that resembled nothing Querrey in and the player’s Home.
‘I was nervous at seeing the’ break ‘no more’

Nadal was done in white with the last game of the match and breathe easy. “When I saw that the ‘break’ did not go in the fourth set, I was a little nervous, because the forces are not at the top, but I was prepared to go to the fifth”, confessed to the shooting, with a favorable balance of nine victories by a defeat at the crossings singles of the Davis Cup.

Nadal found only one drawback about as uncomfortable as Querrey. Re-emphasized the benefit to its rivals, excellent punch, playing at the height of Madrid. “He has helped a little,” he said. “Yes, I feel more comfortable,” confirmed the U.S.. “The height accelerates its service [17 aces joined Querrey] and it costs more to achieve a deep rest by dominating the point,” said Nadal after adding the first point of the tie, which puts Spain to two of his passes to the final the third in the last eight years.

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