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 | Nadal started with a victory in London23-11-2010 |
Rafael Nadal broke the losing streak of six consecutive sets lost in the final ATP tournament and won their first game in this year. He had a 3:6, 7:6, 6:4 over American Andy Roddick in a dramatic and filled with lots of physics games. The first meeting of this group last night Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beat strongly with 6:3, 6:3 finalist of Wimbledon this year, Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic). World No. 1 came into the match and difficult given the bomb to serve Roddick, logically no chance for them and on top of it and let breakthrough. So after 0:3 Rafael Nadal still won thanks to a good forehand first game as an asset for 1:3, but then 28-year-old American saved games and service-after 4:1 no particular problems to close the set for 6:3 . In the second part Roddick started very well and serve samples of Nadal to 2:1, but then let him uncharacteristically breakthrough returned to him and the match turned to 3:2 in favor of leftists from Mallorca. By the end of both sets won its initial attack and brought the situation to 6:6, which imposed a tiebreaker. Both at the beginning of the tiebreaker prevented or surprises early opponent of secession, as first Nadal lead with 2:1, then it took Roddick advance with 3:2. Here, however, the American missed a chance to advance and increase initiative gave Rafa Nadal, who led the match 6:3. Then the Spanish number 1 can control the meeting, perhaps strategically given two points on Roddick and took the tiebreak with 7:5. In the third set and won both his serve in the first four games, but taking advantage of the error Roddick, Nadal achieved a breakthrough in 3:2, then won his serve to 4:2, and subsequently, pobedate with a 6:4. "I had a bit of luck tonight," said the Spaniard. "I started the match a little nervous. But five weeks without any matches and then immediately play against the best players in the world, is indeed difficult to adapt. Moreover, it was the first game, but for me is always difficult. In the meetings of Doubles Mahesh Bhupati (India) and Max Mirnyi of Belarus beat Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Oliver Marah of Austria 7-6 (2), 6-4. In another match of the tournament's doubles Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia defeated Wesley Moodie of South Africa and Dick Norman of Belgium 6-1, 6-2.