Nadal won at the end of 4 hours and 20 minutes, another record of Rafael Nadal
How is this victory possible?
I don't even know myself!
What a simple confession of Rafael Nadal! Fighting for 4 hours and 20 minutes with injuries, Tyler Fritz's great speed serve and fighting with youth. The 36-year-old body does not want to give up like before, but how many can beat Rafael Nadal with a strong mind!
Tyler Fritz made it to the Wimbledon quarterfinals again today. The 24-year-old American did not lose Nadal even after going ahead twice. Nadal advanced to the semifinals after winning 3-6, 6-5, 3-6, 6-5, 6-7 (10/4).
Nadal started by breaking Fritz's service. Nadal went ahead 2-0 with two games to go. At that time, it seemed that Nadal would lose the 11th selection youngster of the United States just by laughing.
But Fritz poured water on his thoughts and showed the opposite magic. In the sixth and eighth games, Nadal broke the service twice in a row and reversed the set. In the set that Nadal led 2-0, Fritz won 6-3.
Copy-paste the first set again at the beginning of the second set. After winning his own serve, Nadal broke Fritz's serve and went ahead 2-0 after two games. After three games it was 3-0. But then again Fritz's return. In the fifth game, Nadal broke the service and returned to the match, after a little 3-3 draw!
But after winning the seventh game 4-3, Nadal could not stay on the court. Suffering from abdominal pain even earlier, he went out with a 'medical timeout'. Fear on the court, Nadal will be able to play!
Nadal played, winning the tiebreaker after the set ended in a draw and returned the match. In the next two sets, the story is written in much the same pattern. The win-loss margin in these two sets remained the same as in the previous two sets. Seeing Nadal suffering from stomach ache, he looked tired, so the settlement of the point was happening so fast. However, Nadal did not accept the loss in the end and took the match to the fifth set.
What happened there? Nadal jumped like a hyena smelling blood. Fritz, who has never reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam before, is a little shaky in the face of a record 22 Grand Slam victories.
You have made mistakes time and time again. Sometimes he got an easy chance to knock Nadal but he hit the shot in the net, sometimes the ball got out of the court because the force of the shot became a little too much. At one point the statistics came in, while Nadal's Unforced Error in the fifth set was 5, while Fritz's number was double digits.
However, in the crazy match, the set ended in a 6-7 draw. How crazy? In the seventh game, Nadal broke Fritz's service, Fritz took the counter again in his next set! The last set was tied at 6-7, maybe the tiebreaker was the right decision for this match. But Fritz could not be found there! Nadal won 10-4 easily.
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