Nadal defeats Norrie and becomes champion of the Acapulco tournament for the fourth time

Rafael Nadal

, fifth in the ATP ranking, has defeated Britain 's

6-4, 6-4 to win the

and add

professional title.

Nadal

started a little out of range, with some unforced errors at the start of the match, but he soon recovered his tennis, began to hurt with his serve and in the fifth game he decided the set.

Although he maintained an

with his first serve, the key to the Manacorí's victory in the opening round was his fine tennis at the decisive moment, in addition to not allowing

to create danger in the Spaniard's service turns.

The second set started unbeatable for

.

With the score at 30-30, he hit a cross to the line to go ahead and signed the break seconds later, much to the frustration of the British, who crashed the racket on the ground.

Releasing the rage did

good .

He put pressure on

in the second game, put him on mate point, 15-40 and although

caused a

, he suffered his first break for 1-1.

After two 'games' in which they appeared to be a peace truce, in the fifth game

pressed again, forced his rival to make unforced errors and broke his serve to take a 3-2 lead, which he extended to 4 -2 when confirming the service break.

Nadal

saw

injured and sought to hurt him;

a shot from the world number 12 hit the net and went to the side, which frustrated him and he was no longer able to amend the game, which meant the third loss against him in the set.

When he seemed settled,

showed pride, broke and got closer to 5-4 after confirming his service, however in the tenth game

closed with lordship;

he held serve and reached 15 wins at the start of the season, the best of his professional career.

With the result, the Spaniard added his third title in 2022: the Melbourne tournament, the

and

, in which he added his fourth title to catch up with his compatriot David Ferrer and the Austrian Thomas Muster.

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