US Open 2019: Rafael Nadal beat Diego Schwartzman 6-4, 7-5 and 6-2 in a great game at the 2019 US Open | Tennis

The Spanish Rafael Nadal , big favorite to the title of US Open , advanced to the semifinals by defeating the Argentine Diego Schwartzman

The Mallorcan, two of the world, sealed the score with partials of 6-4, 7-5 and 6-2 in a game that lasted two hours and 47 minutes until late Thursday morning.

Now he will face the Italian in the next round Matteo Berrettini (24), which beat Frenchman Gael Monfils (13).

"I saw him play, he serves very well, a lot of confidence … he is a player who is making great strides every week," he said of his rival. "It will be another challenge, but this game gave me confidence," he said.

Nadal increases to 8-0 his personal mark against the Argentine (20), who was the only South American who was alive in the last Grand Slam of the year.

Without Novak Djokovic, who abandoned due to injury, and Roger Federer, eliminated in the quarterfinals, Nadal is the favorite to win the trophy, which he already won three times.

Before about 20,000 people, the majority swelling for the 'Peque'; were Shakira and Pique … most likely with Rafa.

The Spanish had anticipated that it would be difficult and he was not mistaken, after all Schwartzman trained in his academy and knows his talent.

However, the game began as many thought it would be, a process, with Rafa dominating the first four games, with two breaks, at the end of a missile bombardment without pause.

After about 20 minutes, he had the board at 4-0, and there he began to get into trouble: he began to err and deliver points.

"Point by point"

"Olé, olé, olé … Diego, Diego!", Rumbled at Arthur Ashe as if it were a game of the Argentine national team.

Nadal lost control of the party and the public began to abandon him.

Schwartzman, whose super power is the return, broke in the fifth and seventh until with a pair of double faults capitulated his serve and set 6-4.

The first break in the second set fell in the fourth game and then in the sixth, but again, with 5-1 on the scoreboard, Nadal lost his lead to 5-5 delivering his serve in the seventh and ninth.

With set point, which was triple, Nadal sealed the second 7-5 with a shot to the mesh.

"Very happy with how I accepted the situation, the challenge, and went on point to point, and here I am in the semifinal and that means everything to me," said the Mallorcan.

Before breaking into the sixth game of the third set, Nadal He asked to stop with the football fan, he needed concentration for the final thrust that sent him to the semifinals.

SOURCE: AFP

THE PREVIEW

The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal celebrated his good game on the central court of Flashing Meadows and his "connection" with the New York public of the United States Open, where he will face his "friend" in Argentina Diego Schwartzman, which he defined as one of the most talented players in the circuit.

Nadal, world number two, exceeded this Monday in the round of 16 US Open to Croatian Marin Cilic in four sets, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 and 6-2, after a game in which the Balearic starred in memorable points.

However, Rafa is aware that against Schwartzamn He will have an "very loud" Argentine audience in favor of his countryman. Although he prefers to have the public in favor, if he is against it, he also does not believe that he will take away concentration.

"It's one more game against a good friend," he said in the anteroom of the duel Nadal, who highlighted in a press conference the "regularity" that supposes for him to have reached the quarterfinals in all the great tournaments of the circuit in the last two years.

Schwartzman Alexander Zverev was imposed in the round of the United States Open by 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 and 6-3.

After seven confrontations between the two players, Nadal has always defeated his Argentine rival, who warns of reaching a better condition than other times and with less wear to this new challenge, in which he believes he will have a chance to win.

SOURCE: EFE

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