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Rafa Nadal

and

do not stop crossing in this 2020. Mallorcan and Asturian will meet again in the quarterfinals of the Masters 1,000 in Paris, the third duel of a season in which Nadal has only played six tournaments.

They already met in the third round in Australia and the second in Rome, Carreño just arrived from the US Open semifinal.

Both games were for Rafa, like all the ones they have played to date.

Nadal will play to win one of the few titles that resist his record and Carreño, for his first 1,000 Masters and a ticket to the Masters Cup.

To reach the quarterfinals, Nadal got rid of the mustachioed

, a first-time victim (6-1, 7-6 (3)).

If with Carreño he has already played six times, with the Australian he had never done it.

And perhaps because it was the first, he served the tasting menu in the first set.

The manacorí woke up aggressive, opening angles, playing with the height and depth of the balls, dispatching a salad of winning shots.

Lightning start

That right, which had taken so long to warm up the day before, woke up burning against poor Thompson, shaken from side to side.

He had no choice but to laugh when, after enduring a 23-stroke rally and saving four winners, he still got a fifth for which he no longer had an answer.

In half an hour, Nadal closed the first set and Thompson learned what it was like to face a

racket for the first time

.

At least it can be said that he is a fast learner, because his image from the first manga had little to do with the second.

The Australian became strong with the serve.

So much so that in none of the six games he started on serve did he allow Nadal to even reach the

.

He even had a set ball with 6-5 in favor, but again there he crashed into a wall: after a 26-stroke point that took him to the limit, the manacorí re-emerged with two jabs;

a two-handed backhand that passed the net whistling and a right to the line that he could no longer return.

In sudden death, the command was from the Balearic Islands.

Again Carreño

For his part, Pablo Carreño beat the Slovakian

(7-5, 6-2) to continue winding up his best participation in Paris: of the five times he had played the tournament, he had never made it past the second round he reached. in 2016 and 2017. It is another sign of the resurgence that is experiencing in the second half of this year that the pandemic split in two.

Fresher and less punished by injuries, Carreño has already made a semifinal at the US Open, fourth at Roland Garros and is now looking for his third semi-final of a Masters 1,000.

His rival, a friend and an ogre, Rafa Nadal.

They have met six times and he has won all six.

In fact, in 14 sets that the Asturian has played, he has only been able to win one.

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