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 | Djokovic beat Nadal won the title in Madrid8-05-2011 |
World No. 2 Novak Djokovic (Serbia) won the title of the Masters Series tournament in the Spanish capital Madrid with a prize fund 3.7 million euros.
In the final, Djokovic beat world No 1 and last year's champion Rafael Nadal (Spain) with 7:5, 6:4 to 2:17.
For that Djokovic is the sixth title of the season and 24 in his career. So 23-year-old Serb, a record 32-straight victory this year (and 34th overall) and improve the achievement of the legend Bjorn Borg (Sweden) in second place on this indicator. Leader remains the great John McEnroe (USA) with 42 consecutive successful launch of the 1984 season. In the first set, Djokovic lead with 4:1 and 5:2, but Nadal equals 5:5.
Djokovic won the first part of 7:5, having made the breakthrough in the last 12th game. In the second set, Nadal began to break, but conceded as such. 5:4 to be playing game to game, then Novak Djokovic reached the success with his fifth break of the match. King of clay "Nadal broke his series of 37 consecutive wins in the red. He failed to take revenge for the loss of Djokovic in the finals of tournaments on hard court Masters Series in Indian Wells and Miami earlier this year. So Nadal lost their third straight finals Dzhokovich.Svetovniyat No. 1 lost for the first time after the defeat of Red Robin Soderling (Sweden) in the fourth round at Roland Garros in 2009. For Djokovic is the first success over Nadal on clay in 10 meetings.