After passing Darwin Blanch and Alex De Minaur, Nadal was present in the third round of Madrid Open 2024. Here, his opponent is Pedro Cachin – the player ranked 91 in the world.
Entering Set 1, everything went smoothly with Nadal. Accordingly, the King of the Platform won 3 breaks in games 1, 5 and 7.
Set Set 2, Cachin plays full of effort. The Argentine player won the break early in games 1 and 5 and then took the lead 4-1. However, Nadal then reclaimed the break and equalized in the last games. The set of matches then had to resolve the victory and lose on the tie-break series, with a 7-5 victory in the cachin.
Peacefully 1-1, the two players entered the set of 3 decisions. After losing the first gaming game, Cachin quickly reclaimed the break in game 4 to equalize 2-2. However, in the rest of the set, Nadal showed bravery to win 2 more breaks, thereby winning 6-3.
In the end, Nadal passed the cachin with a score of 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-3 and officially won tickets to the fourth round of men. He will compete in the quarterfinal tickets with Jiri Lehecka. Other leading seeds such as Daniil Medvedev, Jannik Sinner also go on.
