Monte Carlo: Rafael Nadal ousted Andy Murray in the semifinals – the Équipe.fr

Andy Murray did not start beating on Saturday in the semifinals of the Masters 1000 Monte Carlo against Nadal (2-6, 6-4, 6-2), despite a heavy liability against the Spaniard on clay: six losses against one win in Madrid last year’s final. It is precisely this positive memory what seemed surfing the Scot, with many faces this week (three sets against Herbert then pair, who led 6-2, 3-0 and two games sold to Raonic in quarters) during the first act of this first half prince.

Offensive in backhand success, the world number 2 multiplied the winning shots (13-5 in the first set) to crack an input Nadal in pressure after his ride yesterday against Wawrinka. Author of three ugly mistakes, the Spanish ceded a first service to 3-2, then a second to 5-2 on a forehand into the net. Pushed, Nadal has spread its progress in significantly raising his game in the next two innings, during which he will hit twice winning shots than his opponent (30 against 15).

Offensive in the first act, Murray relented

A statistic that sums up the dynamic progressive reversal in this part. After clearing a break conceded input (1-1), Murray, always true to its strategy of aggression, resisted until the seventh game, capitalizing on small parasites mistakes Nadal. This was detached enjoying a wait too smash the British to pass along line (4-3), then dismissing two immediate débreak balls in stride (5-3), one of the times match Preview. Often feverish in recent months, in the money time , the Majorcan white concluded the round, the service, before unveiling a face almost vintage in the third act.

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This is the third time that Rafael Nadal dominates Andy Murray in the semifinals in Monte Carlo, after 2009 and 2011.

Nadal is very far from his best

for 50 minutes, we reviewed the ultra-domineering Nadal on clay, winning every time, or almost Rally of from the baseline to coups surliftés rights. This one, so often disordered, has clearly regained its luster, its effectiveness also on the Monegasque earth. Murray has found to his cost, lowering of intensity at the start of the deciding set (0-2 and 1-4). It will take five match points in the fifth world to validate her place in the final on Sunday. If necessary, he will get his ninth crown in the Principality. His 28th Masters 1000, record any charges Djokovic equaled. Above all, it will validate, for good this time, his return to the light.

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Rafael Nadal is the sixth player in the Open era to play 100 final, after Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe, Guillermo Vilas and Roger Federer. Sunday, he will play his 10th final in Monte Carlo.