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 | Nadal went through Berdych and is in the final at Indian Wells18-03-2013 |
Rafael Nadal qualified for the final of the Indian Wells Masters after in the first semi-final defeat Tomas Berdych with 6:4, 7:5.
Thus the Spaniard continued with great performances, having returned to court and win in the finals would have return him at No. 4 in the rankings of ATP.
The game started equally, with easily won games from the serving, but in the key seventh game, Nadal succeeded after much struggle to fight for a breakthrough, which was good enough to win the first set.
After an hour and ten minutes Berdych finally reached the first break point, managed to take advantage and in 5:3 served to equalize the sets. At this point, however, Nadal switches to higher speed immediately broke back and at 5:5 advantage of heap mistakes of the Czech and samples for the second time in the set, and then, though the hard, won his service game, and with this and the game.
Nadal next opponent will be determined by the match between Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin del Potro. In his three previous finals in Indian Wells Rafa twice met precisely Nole - in 2007 he won with 6:2, 7:5, but lost in 2011 with 6:4, 3:6, 2:6. In his third final of the Spaniard handled with Andy Murray with categorical 6:1, 6:2.