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 | Murray against Nadal in the finals in Tokyo8-10-2011 |
Spaniard Rafael Nadal beat American Mardy Fish 7-5, 6-1 in a match of the semifinals of the tennis tournament for men in the Japanese capital Tokyo. In the battle for the title of the product under number one player will face Briton Andy Murray, who won with 6-2, 6-3 over David Ferrer of Spain. The match between Nadal and Fish are moving game for game until the 11th when the Spaniard came to a breakthrough against their opponents and then won his own submission to win the first set of "Ariake". This first set will be one of several unusually long rallies, but during the match Nadal pulled the initiative and started to earn points shortly after the implementation of the service. Nadal, last year's tournament champion, won a remarkable 85 percent of second serve, which helped the quick victory in under an hour and a half. He won the submission of Fish in the first and third game of the second set, then finish off your opponent with a new breakthrough in the last seventh game. Nadal and Fish had met seven times before Saturday's semifinal in Tokyo and was American broke once to win. However, it came earlier this year in Cincinnati, where the Fish won in straight sets quarter-final between the two. Nadal and Murray are equal even with three wins in their six matches so far.