Author of his best career start to the season, the Spaniard won a 15th game in a row to win the ATP 500 contested in Mexico.
Rafael Nadal beat Briton Cameron Norrie on Saturday in the final of the ATP tournament in Acapulco (6-4, 6-4), his 4th victory in the Mexican competition, which allows him to remain undefeated in 2022. The world number 5 garnered on the Pacific coast his 91st title, after winning the Melbourne tournament and the Australian Open in 2022, where he alone won the record for Grand Slam titles (21, one more than the Serbian Novak Djokovic and the Swiss Roger Federer).
His last defeat dates back to August 5, 2021, against South African Lloyd Harris in the 3rd round of the Washington tournament. He then withdrew for the rest of the year due to a left foot injury. The 35-year-old Spaniard got the better of the 26-year-old Briton in 1:54, beating him for the fourth time in as many confrontations. He will not have given up any set during his stay in Acapulco, as in 2020 (he had also won the tournament in 2005 and 2013).
On Saturday, he conquered the only break of the first set in the 5th game, taking advantage of two errors from Norrie and sending a winning forehand on the line to take the service of the Briton. The two opponents then traded breaks in the first two games of the second set and Norrie led 2-1, but Nadal then pulled away winning four games in a row. Broken on his serve to win the match, he did not let his second chance pass.
