SERENO TIAFOE
Tiafoe didn’t shy away from meeting the four-time winner at Center Court in Flushing Meadows.
In a duel marked by heat and humidity (both players were sweating profusely from the first point), Tiafoe started off boldly with his forehand and definitely held on to serve, despite struggling to deliver his first serve.
He wasn’t cut off from going to the net either, but Nadal easily stopped him there with a powerful play from the back of the field.
With the score at 3-3, Nadal made several inaccuracies in a row and opened the door for Tiafoe’s break.
The American grabbed that lead, held it calmly from the service and closed the first set with a volley after 54 minutes.
Nadal withdrew to the locker room before the start of the second set in an oddly long break that lasted nearly 10 minutes without the chair umpire explaining the reason and which ESPN said was due to problems with his wrists.
The script of the match continued unchanged with absolute dominance of services with no options for breakage.
Tiafoe continued to play with astonishing ease and tremendous confidence, minimizing errors against an equally solid Nadal.
With forces fully balanced, the key moment came 4-5 for Nadal when Tiafoe, at a point under his control, bounced a ball thinking he was going to get out, but the ball ended up going by a hair. in.
On that miscalculation, Nadal built his first two breakballs all afternoon (after an hour and 45 minutes of play) and eventually won the second set due to a double fault by Tiafoe.
SMALL DETAILS
The game seemed destined to be decided by minute details as the two players took turns serving with authority.
In the middle of the third set, Tiafoe had his second breakball in the entire game and he didn’t lose it, sending a backhand parallel to the line and going 4-3.
By then, he had already had the New York public in his pocket, felt the energy of the moment was on his side, and knew it was now or never.
When it was his turn to serve to win the third set (5-4), Tiafoe hesitated slightly with a double fault.
But in that tense moment, he responded admirably, finishing the set after 47 minutes with two aces and a fantastic forehand down the line on the run.
Forced again to resort to epic, Nadal tried to shake up the match and regain some of the lost grit and spark.
He started the fourth set 0-30 regularly, but he pulled a beautiful counter foot out of the hat, launched his first big cry of the day into the New York air and asked the crowd for encouragement and strength to gear up for a five-game comeback. .
The fourth round had little to do with the previous round and the service breaks did occur in this one.
The first to hesitate was Tiafoe, frustrated by the noise the roof made when it closed due to the rain and who missed a sung shot until he delivered the break (1-3).
However, Nadal was unable to consolidate that advantage and also lost in the next game (2-3).
With the match already far from security in the service of the previous sleeves, Nadal again delivered his serve (4-3) and there he converted the direct Tiafoe to certify, with another break, the most important win of his career to date .
Source: El heraldo
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