Rafael Nadal beats Stefanos Tsisipas in three sets and qualifies for the semi-finals of the Tournament of Champions

• Nadal, who has never won the Tournament of Champions, has qualified for the sixth semifinal of his career in London, where he will face Russian Daniil Medvedev (24, 4 ATP), who leads 3-0 in the direct match report .
• In the second semifinal, Dominic Thiem (27, 3 ATP) will meet the winner of the match between Novak Djokovic (33, 1 ATP) and Alexander Zverev (23, 6 ATP). Zverev and Djokovic will meet today, at 16:00, in a decisive match of the “Tokyo 1970” group.

After the defeat with Dominic Thiem in the previous match, Nadal was able to play a decisive match with Stefanos Tsitsipas, champion of the title of the Tournament of Champions. Pole? Second place in the ace box, where the Russian Daniil Medvedev had already qualified.

Rafa respected his status as a favorite in the match with Tsitsipas and defeated the Greek in three sets, the first two extremely balanced rounds. Nadal played well in the first set – he didn’t even face a break ball – and a weaker range than Tsitsipas at work was enough for the Iberian to win his first set.

Despite Rafa having a break point since the start of the second set, the Greek gradually raised the level of the game and began to put Nadal in trouble with his extremely aggressive play. At 5-4 in his favor, Tsitsipas put pressure on Nadal’s serve and Rafa took off: made a double mistake on the Greek set piece and the game reached the deciding set.

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Nadal dominated the decisive authority

The return defeat did not demoralize Nadal. In turn, the world number two has significantly raised the level of the game. He dominated most of the exchanges on the bottom line and had countless network-inspired forays, to which Tsitsipas found no answers. Nadal won three times in the service of the opponent and in the end won 6-2, a victory synonymous with reaching the semifinals.

Sixth sense 🙌

The moment @Rafael Nadal reached the last four of the #NittoATPFinals for the sixth time! pic.twitter.com/6WNsk60bT5

– Tennis TV (@TennisTV) November 19, 2020

32 winning shots in a rowand Nadal only had 13 unforced errors in the match with Stefanos Tsitsipas. The Greek made an unforced mistake 21 times and had 24 “winners”

VIDEO Summary of the match Nadal – Tsitsipas

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