Chronicle: Rafa Nadal takes the roll against Carreño and gets into the final of Conde de Godó | Tsitsipas

Rafa Nadal went into roller mode and gave Pablo Carreño no option in the second semifinal for Conde de Godó. He won by a resounding 6-3 and 6-2 and will see them this Sunday with Stéfanos Tsitsipas in search of his twelfth title in the Barcelona tournament. The previous eleven finals won them all, Nadal started strong. Solid on the serve, deep with the right, well into the court. The Rafa of always. The alien. He endorsed a 3-0 to Carreño almost without breaking a sweat. The early break allowed Nadal to watch the first set in the rearview mirror. A couple of truce games in which both players maintained their serve brought us to 4-1. Carreño returned to take out and Nadal had two break balls. He wasted them. Or Carreño saved them, depending on how you look at it. He couldn’t with the third and Rafa got 5-1 and his serve to close the set in less than half an hour of play. Nadal was in a hurry and that he had time to spare until 9 o’clock when his Madrid was playing, Nadal did not take advantage of his service to tie the first set and ended up conceding a break with a couple of errors inappropriate for Rafa: a mate interruptus and a double fault to concede the 5-2. Carreño got into the game by confirming the break and placing himself with 5-3 and a break ball with Nadal’s service, smelling a decisive game. Rafa saved her and even had a set ball. Carreño returned it to him and had another break ball. Nadal breathed with the deuce and did not spare the second to score the 6-3 with which he closed the first set after almost an hour of play.Nadal activates the demolition modeRafa Nadal fulfilled his routine of going to the locker room after the first set and the second started like a hurricane. Two breaks in favor and 4-0 up. Carreño had to row for an impossible comeback.Come on, he had the polls more uphill than Gabilondo. The predatory version activated by Rafa put him with one foot in the final of the Conde de Godó, a tournament that he has already won eleven times. With a serve much deeper than in Monte-Carlo and a very long forehand, he gave no choice to a Carreño who did not know where the blows were coming from.At the end, Nadal, on his second match point, closed the second set with an impressive 6- two. He gave Carreño no choice and began to look in his mirror to the best image of himself. They say in Argentina that each year that passes Gardel sings better. And he died in 1935. The same thing happens to Rafa in tennis. Especially on land.