Rafa Nadal extends his unbeaten run and reaches the semifinals with Medvedev

Rafael Nadal He still hasn’t dropped a set in this edition of the Acapulco tournament and remains undefeated this season after defeating Tommy Paul.

At 35, continues signing the best campaign start of his life with 13 victories without failure. If there is someone with tennis and status to stand up to Nadal, it is Daniil Medvedevhis rival in the semifinals on Friday and that on Monday he will relieve Novak Djokovic at the top of the ATP ranking.

The Spaniard, who prepared the match with his compatriot and friend David Ferrer, the man with the record for titles (4), arrives at the event that everyone has been waiting for since the drawing was drawn last Saturday.

Despite the retirement of Matteo Berrettini due to injury and the disqualification of Alexander Zverevthe semifinals of the Mexican contest will have three of the top five in the ranking.

Nadal, after running into two ‘lucky losers’ like Denis Kudla and Stefan Kozlov, this time faced another American with more stripes. The result was almost the same: 6-0 and 7-6(5), in 2 hours and 3 minutes..

Paul was singled out a few years ago as the great hope of American tennis and that’s where he stayed despite the fact that last season he debuted his record at the Stockholm Open 250.

The number 39 in the ranking gave up from the start, giving up the kickoff and the other two. Nadal, like the night before, enjoyed a 6-0 start.

The American, a kind of copy of Andy Roddick, start your locker from the rest in the first game of the second heat. He went ahead 2-0. There was minimal excitement in the match. Rafa made it 2-2 and lost his serve again.

Tres breaks

The return was imposed on the serve. Paul broke his decorated opponent’s serve three times in a partial. Not even so was he able to force the third set because the duel died in sudden death.

The American gave Nadal that point of resistance that will be useful to face the challenge of a semifinal with the new number one.