Chinanews client, April 26th, in the early morning of the 26th, Beijing time, in the 2021 ATP500 Barcelona Open.
Nadal took 3 hours and 38 minutes. After missing 2 championship points and saving a match point, he finally defeated Sisipas 6:4/6(6):7/7:5 and took Barcelona 12th place. crown.
Data map: Nadal in the game.
In the first set, Nadal was in a general state at the beginning of the game. Sisipas played a small climax of 11:0 from the end of the second game, and also took this opportunity to rewrite the game score to 3:1.
In the mid-game stage, Sisipas made many mistakes after leading 4:2. Nadal seized the plan and won the first set 6-4.
In the second set, Sisipas broke serve in the 3rd game and quickly brought the game to 3:1. Nadal successfully broke back in the 6th game and secured serve in the 9th game.
Sisipas was behind 15:40 in the 10th game to save two match points and reverse the serve.
Nadal's subsequent 0:40 in the serve game also reversed and won.
In the tie-breaker, Nadal lost points consecutively when he led 4:2. Although Nadal once stubbornly caught up to a 6:6 tie, he sent a double error at the critical moment and eventually lost the tie-break 6:8.
In the deciding set, there was no break point in the first 9 games. In the 10th game, Nadal had no way to return the serve. After a round of see-saw, Nadal was surprised to complete the serve, and immediately completed the key in the 11th game. Sexual break.
In the subsequent serve win game, Nadal saved a break point and took a thrilling victory, thus winning the final set 7:5 and then winning the three-set battle.
After this campaign, Nadal, who was squeezed to third place in the singles world ranking by Medvedev, has returned to second place in the latest singles world ranking announced by the ATP on April 26.
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