Rafa Nadal: Rublev brings Nadal down to earth at the Monte Carlo Masters 1000

It could not be. Rafa Nadal will not be able to lift his twelfth title in Monte Carlo. The Balearic tennis player added the sixth defeat of his life on Monegasque clay after falling to Andrey Rublev (6-2, 4-6 and 6-2) in a match in which the world number 8 showed his best version and left half the comeback of a Nadal who had to pull epic to take the match to the third set … but ended up succumbing after more than two hours of play. For the second year in a row, the Spaniard will not be able to lift the title in a tournament that has always been considered his private garden, because in this edition of Monte Carlo Nadal was also playing against history. The Spaniard had the opportunity to equal Djokovic’s 36 titles in Masters 1000 and incidentally go back to bed next Sunday as the new number 2 in the world. So the Spanish tennis player had reasons to border on excellence in addition to those already known: he is the best there was, there is and probably will be on clay. For this reason, he devastated Delbonis and Dimitrov without conceding a single set on his return to the courts after the disappointment of the Australian Open and before Rublev he left with the aim of continuing to acquire filming based on victories. develop by the laws of logic with a comfortable victory for Rafa Nadal, but Andrey Rublev sent a warning to the Balearic Islands after breaking in the first game of the match and later consolidating it with his serve. The Spaniard responded with a blank serve and won his first game to the rest to equalize the score at two… but the Russian did not reduce the morale of the Russian, who again made a break thanks to two great rests and three double faults by the Balearic. Seeing is believing.He had started and this was shown after the world number 8 consolidated the set, broke again and sentenced the first set with a 6-2 that was a declaration of intent. Nadal was going to have to bring out his best version to be in the semifinals of Monte Carlo, everything foreshadowed a Homeric comeback from Nadal in the second but Rublev tried to extinguish the flame of illusion with a break in the first game to later put the 2- Or that it was a slab for the morale of the best in history on clay. The Spaniard had the opportunity to break on the Russian’s next serve but squandered an advantage. It wasn’t the day. When everything indicated that the sixth defeat of his life in Monte Carlo would arrive, as it usually happens on other occasions, Nadal tried to resurface in the sixth game of the second set … but he wasted nothing more and nothing less than four break balls. What happened was the perfect summary of what was happening on the Monte Carlo clay. Nadal is reborn… but loses in the third. This seemed like the final blow for a Rafa Nadal who resurfaced as he only knows how to do. When it seemed that all was lost, the Spaniard played an eighth Homeric game to return the break to the Russian and equalize the match. And the best of the Spanish was yet to come, because immediately afterwards he consolidated his serve and broke again to take the second command. Rafa Nadal was doing a feat on the Monte Carlo track. Another feat after having been on the ropes and now the stakes were back in their favor. Simply Rafael Nadal. 🎥 @TennisTV | #RolexMCMasters pic.twitter.com/xXe1813UJb – ATP Tour in Spanish (@ATPTour_ES) April 16, 2021 And in the third the match started to go crazy.Rublev broke first, then Nadal did it to return to answer the Russian with a break of serve. The world number 8 did consolidate his serve and forced the Balearic to do another feat to be in the semifinals of the Monte Carlo Masters 1000. But this time it couldn’t be. Another break for the young player led to the defeat of a Rafa Nadal who was left halfway through the comeback and added the sixth defeat of his life in Monte Carlo. Next stop: the Count of Godó.