30-15 Ruud,
third ace.
15-15 Ruud first a good forehand, then a missed backhand. His driving is impressive, his backhand can improve a lot.
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Rafael Nadal – Casper Ruud 5-4
Rafa survived the set because he had two breaking points against him. As fast playing conditions demand, the first serve is the best solution. He came in and fixed the game. A relief.
Nadal’s advantage,
FOURTH ACE. Always looking for Rafa, he has that in any situation.
equal He holds his serve and Rafa sets now with a good first serve. Liberator, removes many problems. Suffering in delicate moments will come if you have to play second.
BREAK RUUD’S SECOND BALL. Ruud’s winning crossover backhand, showing more determination in this relevant moment. Rafa has been struggling this week in key moments.
He lacks the confidence of a good streak, when he is against it: four straight losses.
equal Nadal served and volleyed to overcome the break ball, with luck as Ruud’s pass stayed in the net as the Norwegian’s pass option was positive.
30-40 BREAK RUUD BALL!!! What a mistake by Rafa, twisting his right hand and throwing it into the net. The crossed backhand is very good, he returns and the Spaniard is not in a good position. The set is in jeopardy.
30-30 Nadal, plays the second serve again but stays in the exchange until the final forehand is hit.
15-30 Ruud, forehand attack The most focused turn for Rafa, who lost two points played on his second serve of the turn.
15-15 Great open first serve by Rafa, who leaves the rest of Ruud, who clearly takes too long.
0-15 Ruud. The length of Nadal’s hit.
Rafael Nadal – Casper Ruud 4-4
I play 30 Ruud,
he closed with his second ace.
40-30 Ruud, who misses to the right, ‘eats’ Nadal’s deep ball, winning the match with low center shots.
40-15 Ruud. Rafa goes up to the net, the low ball doesn’t clear the racket. He boarded late, he did not control the boat early.
30-15 Ruud. The first serve is usually synonymous with a point in this tournament,
of very fast game conditions.
15-0 Ruud, first serve point.
Half time of the game.
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Rafael Nadal – Casper Ruud 4-3
I play at 15 Nadal, sound on the serve, with a continuous vocation to close the net.
30-15 Christmas. Ruud tips with a soft touch of a crossed backhand. A wonderful pass that Rafa also applauded.
30-0 Nadal, leading in the background, breaks the rival defense with a left-handed shot.
Ninth winning stroke.
15-0 Nadal, a smash master, still stretched his body too far back to avoid being hit by the ball.
Rafael Nadal – Casper Ruud 3-3
I play 30 Ruud, who also drives his serve with no problem.
40-30 Ruud, open serve, very angled and Nadal was surprised with the right off foot.
30·30. A good first serve and lethal attack with Ruud’s forehand.
15-30 Christmas. Huge backhand volley error by Ruud. The jump was not well placed on him. He threw the ball into the net.
15-15 Ruud backhand failure, his weakest point.
Ruus’ sixth unforced error, 5 leads Nadal, who also wins in wins: 7-2.
15-0 Ruud. The rest continued to fail more than the Nadal account, he rushed the exchanges more than when he tied them from the serve.
Rafael Nadal – Casper Ruud 3-2
I play 30 Nadal, no problem for the serve in these eighteen minutes of the game. Rafa said goodbye, Casper has secured a place in the semifinals, on Saturday against Tsitsipas or Rublev, who will meet tomorrow in the other group.
40-30 Christmas. Ruud begins to take down Rafa’s second serve.
30-15 Christmas,
third ace.
15-15 The first point to the rest of Ruud, who made a defense the best attack. He held out his right hand and an unexpected error from Rafa, who had mispositioned himself and had a worse grip on the ball, came into the net.
15-0 Nadal, flawless serve and volley.
9 out of 9 points with service.
Rafael Nadal – Casper Ruud 2-2
Ruud’s Blank Set. The receiver went three of four games without scoring.
40-0 Ruud. long backhand by Rafa.
30-0 Ruud, Nadal’s right slipped. Aggressive error.
Rafael Nadal – Casper Ruud 2-1
Second
empty game consecutive manacorí with serve.
30-0 Nadal,
six points in a row with the first serve.
15-0 Nadal, who will get a lot of ball rhythm now because there is more to change. He needed it to regain the sensations and automatism as he had played very little in recent months. And it was in Comanche territory for him, in easier playing conditions for rivals.
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Rafael Nadal – Casper Ruud 1-1
I play 30 Ruud.
30-15 Ruud, showing his overall improvement so far this season. Backhand volley killing the ball. When the net was not a typical Scandinavian thing, his father trained him
Christian and Pedro Clar, the appointed coach of the Rafa Nadal Academy.
15-0 Ruud, his service turn begins
an ace.
Rafael Nadal – Casper Ruud 1-0
Game on white Nadal,
with two aces in a row to close.
40-0 Nadal,
first ace
15-0 Great crossed backhand by Rafa Nadal, ending the long exchange of blows. They are baseline players. He immediately looked for the Norwegian’s backhand from Manacorí, only to switch to the other side as soon as he saw space for his parallel right. He landed, that final cross backhand was huge. Straight to the line.
Rafael Nadal – Casper Ruud 0-0
The match begins, Rafa Nadal serves, looking to leave the tournament with a win. He did not win any set.
Casper Ruud
losing all seven of their matches against top-3 players, without winning a set. But the Norwegian, 23 years old and number 4 in the world, is getting better in every way.
Rafael Nadal says his 2023 season is starting. They will be looking for a victory that breaks the bad dynamics of four consecutive losses, against
Tiafoe, Paul, Fritz, and Auger-Aliassime.
Casper Ruud will repeat the semifinals for the second consecutive year in the tournament, he had a crisis after losing the finals of the US Open to Carlos Alcaraz but he is back in Turin, where he had two good matches against Auger-Alissime and Fritz .
Win the Rafa Nadal draw,
which will begin to issue
Second match between Nadal and Ruud
As background, the Roland Garros final. Rafa won with a score of 6-3, 6-3 and 6-0. Nothing to do with that clay and indoor-rapid events and the current form states of both.
Rafael Nadal and Casper Ruud entered the court.
the french
Aurelie Tourte will referee the match, which is in the central Pala Alpitour in Turin.
Nadal was eliminated but there was a lot at stake
The
200 points of the ranking is not important because it would deliver the second place in the world to Casper Ruud himself, which he now leads by 400, or to Stefanos Tsitsipas.
The economic prize is also relevant:
370,000 euros.
But more important for Rafa is rediscovering success, after a streak of four straight losses. All against North American rivals. Now a European.
He has never experienced five consecutive losses on the ATP Tour.
El Nadal – Ruud, on schedule
It is marked no earlier than 2:00 pm at the Pala Alpitour in Turin,
it starts at 2 pm. At 9, they will contest the second place of the group in the semifinals
Felix Auger-Aliassime and Taylor Fritz, Rafa’s two executioners this week. Both were beaten, however, by the Norwegian.
Rafael Nadal, before his last game of the season
With no option to go to the semifinals of the ATP Finals, he will face the leader of the Green Group,
Casper Ruudwho will meet in the semifinals against the winner of
Rublev-Tsitsipas in the morning.
Nadal and Ruud, who meet at the Manacorí academy in Manacor, will have a long tour of Latin America in a few days, playing several exhibition matches.
Source: La Verdad
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