NADAL MAKES TITLE ROUND

Rafael Nadal has made it to the title round of the US Open 2013 by defeating Richard Gasquet of France in the semi final. Nadal won the match in the straight sets by 6-4, 7-6(1), 6-2.

Barring a few games in the second set, Nadal was pretty dominating. It took him a little more than a couple of hours to get better of the Frenchman who was given the 8^th seed in this tournament.

Nadal who had lifted the trophy here at Flushing Meadows 3 years back in 2010 has now won 21 successive matches on hard courts.

Talking to the reporters in the post match interview, Nadal said, “I was not here last year and now, to come back this year and make it to the finals, it’s like dream come true. The last couple of weeks have been great.”

“It will be difficult to face somebody like Novak in the final. But, I am up for it.”

In the opening set, Nadal started in a brilliant manner as he sneaked a breakthrough in the very first game and then, held his serve in the next game to take a lead of 2-0. The Spaniard didn’t lose the advantage thereafter and kept on winning his service games to seal the opener by 6-4.

The proceedings in the next set started similarly as Gasquet dropped his serve again in the first game. But, this time, the Frenchman came back and broke Nadal in the 4^th game to make the score 2-2.

There were no breakthroughs in the next 8 games and the set got extended into the tie breaker where Nadal proved his superiority with some thunderous strokes. Gasquet could win just one game in the tie breaker and got down by two sets.

Nadal continued on his merry way in the following set which eventually proved to be the last set of the match. With a couple of breakthroughs, the Spanish maestro clinched it easily by 6-2 and moved into the title round where his opponent will be Novak Djokovic.