• Narration: This is how we live the game

It showed in

Rafa Nadal's

gestures

how far

Pablo Carreño

was making him go

.

In his way of shaking his fist on the bench after saving three

break

balls

at the start of the second set, already with one down.

Or after tying the game, provoking with a

sharp

passing

one of the Asturian's first moments of doubt, impeccable in the first hour of the game.

Carreño started like never before, Nadal won as always.

4-6, 7-5, 6-1 and ticket to the semifinals of the Masters 1000 in Paris.

[Narration and statistics]

The man from Manacor had to fight hard to break down the determination of the Asturian, who came to the cement of Bercy with that same decision that unhinged Djokovic at the US Open.

When the game began, there was no one in all of Paris more convinced than Pablo Carreño.

Very firm in service and direct in exchanges, with that courage that

Jordan Thompson

, Nadal's previous victim,

had not had

.

Each hit to the line reaffirmed the Asturian, who fastened the first set with a

crossed

passing

at the half turn.

Your confidence has been up there.

And from there Nadal brought him down.

For a moment in the second set they coincided at the top, but as soon as Carreño's unforced errors began to emerge, the Mallorcan began to gain ground, eventually taking over the track in the third heat.

It showed in the gestures, also in those of the Asturian, who dropped his shoulders and brought his hand to his face when another

passing

left him with a ball of a break that he knew definitive.

Nadal won again, as always they have faced, and is already waiting for a rival in the semifinals, who will come out of the duel between Zverev and Wawrinka.

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