Rafeal Nadal Remains the King of Clay
The number two ranked tennis player in the world bagged his third Barcelona Open title in a row by beating Argentine Guillermo Canas in straight sets 6-3, 6-4.
This was Nadal’s 72nd straight win on a clay court, he hasn’t lost a match on clay in two years and he hasn’t lost a set since the first match of the French Open final last year to proverbial tennis superman Roger Federer.
Nadal just keeps increasing his own lead in the record books, his most recent win putting him nineteen victories over the number two in consecutive matches on clay (Guillermo Vilas - 53 in 1977).
Canas took the whooping in stride and remarked to AP reporters “At least playing against Nadal at his best will only serve to help me reach a level that I would like to reach with my own game.”
If you’ve never seen Rafael Nadal play on his surface, here’s a bit of action from the ‘07 Monte Carlo Final in which he took down the number one ranked tennis player in the world(Federer):
With his win at Barcelona, he becomes only the fourth player to take home the coveted title three times, and only the second to do it three times in a row. If he could convince to tennis gods to do away with grass and hardcourt, Nadal would take over the ever elusive number one ranking in no time.
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