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Intuited

, in his own speech, a long battle.

And there was. Everything seemed under control for

, who dominated by two sets to love and had deactivated the young Canadian, who was slow to appear but resurfaced when he was left for dead and, helped by the energy deficit that devastated his rival due to stomach problems, took the game to the limit.

It was hard to imagine that something similar could happen in view of what happened until Nadal missed the third set.

He did not know how to manage the comeback Shapovalov, who gave up his service early in the fifth, saw how his rival recovered success with the serve, and wasted three

balls

in his first two return innings.

Once again, in a show of resilience and experience, the Spaniard got through a match that had become very difficult for him and will be in his seventh Australian Open semifinals early Friday morning, the thirty-sixth in a Grand Slam tournament, after winning 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6 and 6-3, in four hours and eight minutes, and is two games away from winning the Australian Open again, 13 years later, and add the twenty-first

, with which he would be alone on the heights, with one more than

and

.

There is no antidote for Nadal in his impressive return to competition after five months injured.

After winning the ATP 250 in Melbourne, he got his eighth consecutive victory, and he did it with a degree of combativeness that reaffirms his options to fight for everything.

Under normal conditions, he could have run into

in the penultimate season, but, absent the Serbian, against whom he has lost two finals in this tournament, after the turbulent episode that ended in his deportation from the country, he will face the winner of the match between

and

.

After two years in a row losing in the quarterfinals, against

and

, Nadal returns to the penultimate round of the tournament.

Only once, in 2008 against

, did he reach the semi-finals.

To the triumph of 2009 he adds four lost finals, since he also lost against

, in 2014, and

, in 2017. They are already 22 consecutive victories against left-handers, precisely since that boy named Shapovalov defeated him five years ago in the eighth of the Montreal Masters 1000.

His beginning was incontestable.

Steadfast on serve, he dominated an erratic opponent, who conceded his second serve to love with a succession of errors.

He had a hard time letting go of the Canadian, managing with the fluidity that characterizes him.

He was not in tune with the initial blow, running into the good performances of the rest on the other side of the net.

In the third day match of the four that he has played in the tournament, Nadal made the most of the favorable conditions at the start;

his ball stings more, his impacts are more easily poisoned.

inconsistent the canadian

Shapovalov, fourteenth favorite, is a tennis player who plays fast. He can be difficult to contain when he is touched by inspiration, by an inertia of chained successes, or show all his vulnerability when he cannot move close to the line and take the initiative. He came with the endorsement of having defeated

, third favorite, in three straight sets, but the stake this time was much higher; Nadal penalizes inconsistency with a high price. Semifinalist of the last Wimbledon, this time

could not repeat the achievement.

Before the start of the second set, the Canadian complained to the chair umpire,

, because his opponent was taking too long when he was ready to serve. The dialogue between the two was reproduced with the addition of this to the brief conversation. None of this destabilized the Spaniard, in principle also immune to Shapovalov's improvement, more accurate with his serve, capable of holding up better in the second set.

Nadal hit the Tel Aviv-born player's one-handed backhand, who, however, resisted the break ball, among other reasons because on the few occasions he had to provoke it, he missed with returns on second serve.

Nadal's parallel right worked.

The

in the seventh game of the second set had a capital weight.

Two out of two presented the man from Manacor when it came to transforming his options.

The Canadian thought he saw a gap to return to the game with his first two break options in the sixth game of the third, suffocated by two separate service winners.

He did take advantage of the ill-advised ninth game of the Spanish, who committed a double fault and gave him life, later delivering the third set.

It was then that his problems began and victory hung by a wire.

He declined his service, had to request medical attention and needed to hurry until the last partial, where he recovered his weapons to certify his pass.

There, in the short distances, and on the big stages, few move like him, even in the most adverse situations.

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