Rafa s making History again as usual Excerpt from ATP World No. 1 Rafael Nadal, playing in his 800th match and first since the Australian Open final, began his campaign at the Rio Open presented by Claro hdtv with a 6-3, 7-5 win over fellow Spaniard Daniel Gimeno-Traver on Tuesday night. Nadal’s lone hiccup came to start the second set, when he fell behind 0-2, but he recovered the break in the third game. He broke Gimeno-Traver again in the 11th game before serving out the victory. The Spaniard improved to a 10-0 record on Brazilian soil, including his triumphs in 2005 at Costa do Sauipe and last year in Sao Paulo. Im happy to be back in competition, said Nadal. I had to face a player thats been playing for several weeks on clay courts. I have to improve some details, but I played better than I practised and thats positive. Latin America is very special for me, I feel like home. The people are great to me and its a pleasure to be back in Brazil. I hope I can come more often. Nadal is the sixth active player to have played at least 800 singles matches on the ATP World Tour, along with Roger Federer, Tommy Haas, Lleyton Hewitt, David Ferrer and Nikolay Davydenko.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:57:06 +0000
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