To the limit, with another comeback mark of the house, with 5-2 against in the third set, Rafael Nadal has once again performed a feat in his debut in the Masters 1,000 of Indian Wells in which the American has been imposed sebastian korda by 6-2, 1-6 and 7-6 (7-3).
After 2 hours and 31 minutes of fighting Nadal has achieved the 17th consecutive victory since the season began and remains undefeated in 2022. The tennis player from Manacor who reappeared after conquering the Melbourne tournaments, the Australian Open and Acapulcohas resisted being defeated from the central Californian tournament where he has been champion three times, the last one in 2013. It seemed that he would achieve it easily after scoring the first set with great confidence and hitting the ball with strength and aggressiveness from the start that has advanced 4-0.
another comeback
But Nadal has had to suffer and, at times, has been out of the tournament, after Korda snatched the second set from him, conceding just one game and placed just two points from victory in the third set at 5-2. Nadal had gone from more to less in the last two sets in which until 2-5 in the third setaccumulated up to 25 unforced errors and 8 double faults.
Herculean Effort from Rafa ?
the moment @Rafael Nadal completed a superb comeback against Korda, staying unbeaten so far in 2022!#IndianWells pic.twitter.com/u2Q4TgLlom
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) March 12, 2022
Once again your extraordinary mental strength has kept him in the game for a new comeback as in the final in Australia against Daniel Medvedev in which he was two sets down and 3-2 and 0-40 in the third set. On this occasion the match did not have the significance of the one in Melbourne in which Nadal ended up winning his 21st Grand Slam, but Nadal he fought as if his life dependedanimating at each point until the marker is turned around
Korda, 21 years old and 38 in the world, will not forget in time the game this Saturday in which he had managed to turn the score around after giving up the first set. American tennis player son of former Czech tennis player Petr Korda, champion of the Australian Open in 1998, has seen how Nadal snatched his most important victory when he had everything in his favour, giving up his serve twice, so that the current world number 4 tied the third set 5-5 and in the tie break he prevailed losing only three points.
“Today Korda deserved the victory more than me, but when everything works out for you, like at the beginning of this season, you win games like these. I fought to take it and I’m very glad I got it “”, he admitted on the track Nadal.
Triumphs of Alcaraz and Bautista
Beside Nadal has also been released with victory Carlos Alcarazwho has defeated the American Mackenzie McDonald 6-3 and 6-3 and Robert Baptist, that has been imposed on the also American Jeffrey John Wolf (209 world) by 6-3, 6-7 (3-7) and 7-6 (7-5). In the next round of the round of 16, the two Spanish tennis players will cross paths while Nadal will play against the British Daniel Evans (29 world).