The Spanish tennis player gets into the quarterfinals after adding his twelfth consecutive victory, something he had never achieved until now
Not even a month has passed since Rafa Nadal added his 21st Grand Slam title in Australia and now he continues to break his own records in Acapulco. There he signed his twelfth consecutive victory of the season, something he had never achieved, to get into the quarterfinals of the tournament.
At the GNP Seguros Arena, Nadal, 35, beat the American Stefan Kozlov in two sets 6-0 and 6-3 and with that they have reached 12 wins without defeat in the current season. In this way he surpassed his personal mark of 11 wins that he set in 2014.
In the press conference after the match, Rafael Nadal did not pay attention to the statistical achievement: “I have never been very aware of the numbers, to be honest, I am always aware of trying to play well and prepare well to compete well. If it is So the numbers keep coming out.
In this Mexican Open, Nadal has been especially attentive to his physical condition due to the injuries he has suffered throughout his career and that have forced him to reduce his competition schedule.
“In the end I am able to play and at the moment I am competing well and this is the most important thing for me. After many complicated months, little by little you feel better and in some way you feel liberated and in that sense, for me, more beyond the victory, the important thing is to be playing”, concluded Nadal.
Now, Nadal will seek his 13th victory this season against American Tommy Paul, to access the semifinals. The Spaniard aspires to his fourth title in the Mexican Open after those won in the 2005, 2013 and 2020 editions. If he achieves it, he would tie the top winners of the tournament: the Austrian Thomas pattern and the spanish David Ferrer.
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