China News Service, October 7th. The French Open men's singles quarter-finals ended on the 7th Beijing time.
Among them, Nadal faced Sinner. After resolving the serve in the first set, the former won 7:6(4)/6:4/6:1 and reached the French Open semi-finals for the 13th time in his career.
It is worth mentioning that this is Nadal's 98th victory in Roland Garros' 100th game.
The focus of the battle, which started close to midnight Paris time, was very exciting in the first set.
Sina got the chance to serve the game after grasping three break points, but Nadal then showed great resilience and successfully broke back and dragged the game into a tie-break. The Spaniard with more key points ability followed He won the first set with 7:4.
In the next game, Sinner caused little interference with Nadal, and the big score quickly reached 3:0. Nadal continued to defend the title of the king of clay.
After the quarterfinals with Italian rookie Cinna, it was already past 1 am local time in Paris. Nadal thanked the fans after the game: "It's very late now, and I want to thank everyone for staying so late." For this game, he said: "His shot is very heavy, which is a bit difficult for me. You know in this very cold situation, the ball does not spin much, so for me, it is difficult to disrupt His batting state. But in the third set I did a lot better and played more aggressively."
In the semi-finals, Nadal will face Schwarzman, his opponent who just lost in Rome three weeks ago. The latter and Tim, who just won the US Open title, successfully reversed the victory in 308 minutes in the quarterfinals, first in his career. Entered the top 4 men's singles Grand Slam.
Regarding the upcoming game, Nadal said: "There is no doubt that Schwarzman played a wonderful game today when facing one of the best players in the world, especially on this field. He has great self-confidence. He defeated me in Rome, reached the finals, and entered the semi-finals here, which undoubtedly made him more confident. I know I must go all out on the court and play very aggressively Tennis is very different from what I did when I was in Rome. I hope I can meet this game in the best condition." (End)