Rafael Nadal continues his path undefeated in 2022. The Balearic tennis player, champion of the Melbourne ATP 250 tournament and the Australian Open, added his thirteenth consecutive victory of the season in the round of 16 of the Acapulco tournament , with the North American Stefan Kozlov ( 6-0, 6-3) as a victim. With a donut in the first set and a second with a little more doubt in which he lost his serve after dominating, Nadal completed a positive performance, which quoted him against another American, Tommy Paul, in the quarterfinals.
Just one hour and 17 minutes were enough for Nadal , in his best season start in history , surpassing that of 2014, to qualify for the quarterfinals of a tournament in Acapulco with which he has a special idyll and wants to overcome in this 2022. Rafa is the youngest tennis player and the oldest to win the Champion Pear, something that he would take to the maximum in case of lifting his third consecutive title this season.
For this, he still has to overcome important obstacles, the first, a Tommy Paul who awaits him in the quarterfinals after defeating Dusan Lajovic in three sets, but who should not give a Nadal more problems than in his best version, like the one that taught in the first set against Kozlov , he continues to be inaccessible to the vast majority of rivals.
That 6-0 left the game seen to sentence, against a rival who ended up diminishing the first round clash and who, yes, drew strength from weakness to compete in the second and recover the break against that relaxed Nadal . The match reached the decisive stretch with equality, unexpectedly, but in the blink of an eye and in the form of a counterbreak, Rafa broke Kozlov ‘s serve again to launch himself, definitively, towards the quarterfinals in Acapulco .
