After a week of competition, Rome Masters 2021 officially closed with the championship of Rafael Nadal. “The King of the Platform” has shown his bravery on the face of the forte to overcome the “rival” Novak Djokovic in the final.
As expected, Nadal and Djokovic have brought the audience a truly attractive and dramatic match, lasting for 2 hours and 50 minutes. Right from the first set, the two players struggled each other game.
In this set, Djokovic has a very favorable start when leading 2-0. However, after exactly 1 hour, the score was balanced 5-5. The turning point of the set came in the 11th game when Nole held the serve but had 2 consecutive double serve errors.
Facing extremely favorable opportunities to break this game, Nadal did not miss. After leading 5-6, the world's No. 3 player won the 12th game after a very dangerous corner. Set 1 closed with a 7-5 victory for the “crew king”.
However, Djokovic rises strongly in the second set. The world's No. 1 player constantly pushes Nadal into the back of the field to have the opportunity to enter the yard to finish. After the Spanish star equalized 1-1 in the second game, Nole continuously won points and won 6-1 quickly. In this set, Nadal broke a lot and lost 2 breaks.
To the decisive set, the two players continued the chase in the first time. However, Djokovic does not seem to have enough physical strength for Nadal after having been squeezed in two stressful matches yesterday. Coming to the 6th Game Game, Rafa won the white game and then went to the finish line and ended Set 3 with a 6-3 victory.
In the end, Nadal defeated Djokovic with a score of 2-1 (sets: 7-5, 1-6, 6-3) in the final to officially win the Rome Masters 2021 championship. Notably, this was the 10th time the “crew king” won the trophy in Italy, thereby extending the record of the tournament. Not only that, he also leveled the record to win 36 ATP Masters 1000 titles of the opponent.
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