With this victory, Rafael Nadal has reached 12 consecutive victories. In 2022, he fought at 12 matches.
His impressive series of achievements came from 3 Melbourne Summer Set, Australia expanded and expanded Mexico. The victory this morning against Kozlov was his second victory in the tournament and surely Nadal would want to conquer more milestones to reach the final destination to have the fourth time to win the tournament in Mexico.
Returning to the match in the 1/8 round has just ended, the difference in the level is shown by Nadal right from the first set. With the thunder and thunderstorms with his left hand, he constantly surrendered to the opponent. So Nadal won 6-0 quickly after only 31 minutes of competition.
In the second half, the world number 130 is a bit protest. Nadal broke the game soon and led to 4-1 but he let Stefan Kozlov reclaim the break in the 7th game. The score was 4-3 and Kozlov began to think of a victory in set 2.
But with the bravery and excess experience, Nadal brought the match to the script. He had an additional break before the end of the match easily with the serve directly scored. Set 2 score is 6-3, even in the last game, Kozlov could not score any points.
Thus, Nadal is proving that he is a “express train” in this tournament. Spanish player had 2 victories quickly to participate in the quarterfinals. The last two matches, he only takes about 1 and a half hours to finish the game.
Nadal's upcoming opponent will be Tommy Paul after the player defeated Dusan Lajovic quite hard after 3 sets with 7-6 (8-6), 2-6 and 7-5.
