This morning 18/3, Indian Wells Masters entered the quarterfinals of men's singles. In particular, the focus is the competition between Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios.
This season, Nadal is in extremely impressive form. In the last round 4, the Spanish player defeated Reilly Opelka after 2 sets to win tickets to the quarterfinals. However, before the “bad guy” Kyrgios, Rafa encountered many difficulties.
In Set 1, Kyrgios was a lot of surprises when winning the first break in game 3, putting Nadal into the chasing position. However, the King of the ground also quickly showed his bravery. He reclaimed the break in the game 10 and then pulled the opponent into the tie-break series of brain.
In the gun battle series, Kyrgios was too inferior to Nadal. Australian tennis players did not win any points and accepted to lose 0-7.
At this time, Kyrgios' competition spirit was pushed up very high. In set 2, he played fairly with Nadal when creating an extremely attractive chase. The turning point came in game 12 when the Australian player won an important break, thereby closing the set 2 with a 7-5 victory.
Draw 1-1, Nadal and Kyrgios must enter the set of 3 decisions. This time, Nadal was the one who owned the game. He won the only break of the set in game 7, thereby winning 6-4.
In the end, Nadal defeated Kyrgios with a score of 2-1 and officially won tickets to the semi-finals of the Indian Wells Masters 2022. Notably, this is also his 19-rendic victory since the beginning of 2022.
