subject: Rafael Nadal Is Easier To Thailand Open Semifinals [print this page] World number one Rafael Nadal reached the semi-finals of the Thailand Open with a 6-2 6-3 victory against Kazakhstan on Mikhail Kukushkin Friday.
The Spaniard, who won her ninth Grand Slam last month, the U.S. Open , overpowered the 22 year with a brilliant show, in all directions. Nadal defeated 83-ranked Kazakhstan at 3-2 in the first set and won six consecutive games before Kukushkin replicated.
Nadal served throughout the second set and kept his opponent on the wrong foot with penalties forehand drives. "It was a performance much better than yesterday and I felt really happy.
My service-shot worked very well," said Nadal reporters.Referring his U.S. Open victory, Nadal said he had even more room for improvement and it would be difficult to keep its number one position for a long time."I am not the best tennis player yet. Win or lose depends on how priorities. I just want to enjoy and become a better player every year," added.
Unseeded Jarkko Nieminen and Benjamin Becker to reserve seats for the semifinals after a impressive tournament will be destroyed early departure of its top-ranked players.Finland s Nieminen to win the third-seeded Austrian Jurgen Melzer 6-3 7-6 to set the quarter-finals with Becker, a finalist in 2007, a man who beat German Daniel Brands 6-4 6-2.
Nadal and Ernests Gulbis of Latvia are the only seeded players left in the race. Gulbis has been programmed to play in Spain Guillermo Garcia-Lopez later Friday.Those who made an early exit in the second-seeded Fernando Verdasco, a former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro and Serbian Viktor Troicki.
Rafael Nadal Is Easier To Thailand Open Semifinals
