Nadal makes it six in a row in Monte Carlo
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April 19, 2010, Monday
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WORLD No. 3 Rafael Nadal won the Monte Carlo Masters for a record sixth consecutive time with a 6-0, 6-1 drubbing of fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in the final yesterday.
Nadal, who had not claimed an ATP title in the past 11months, won his 32nd straight match in the glitzy principality with yet another stunning display of claycourt tennis.
Four-time French Open champion Nadal raced through the opening set as Verdasco, playing in his first Masters final, proved unable to live with him.
Nadal ended the one-sided contest on his first match point with a forehand winner before rolling on the ground in celebration. He had not won a singles title since the Rome Masters in May last year.
Nadal is the only player to win six straight titles in the same event since tennis turned professional in 1968, and the 23-year-old is level with top-ranked Roger Federer on 16 Masters titles, one behind Andre Agassi's record.
In Charleston, South Carolina, Caroline Wozniacki's bid for a second title in two weeks came to a shuddering halt when she retired injured from her semifinal at the Family Circle Cup on Saturday.
The top-seeded Dane, who clinched her seventh career title in Ponte Vedra, Florida, last week, quit while trailing Russia's Vera Zvonareva 2-5 in the first set after injuring her right ankle in a tumble.
In the final, seventh-seeded Zvonareva will meet fourth seed Samantha Stosur of Australia, who beat Slovak seventh seed Daniela Hantuchova 6-3, 7-6 (2).
Nadal, who had not claimed an ATP title in the past 11months, won his 32nd straight match in the glitzy principality with yet another stunning display of claycourt tennis.
Four-time French Open champion Nadal raced through the opening set as Verdasco, playing in his first Masters final, proved unable to live with him.
Nadal ended the one-sided contest on his first match point with a forehand winner before rolling on the ground in celebration. He had not won a singles title since the Rome Masters in May last year.
Nadal is the only player to win six straight titles in the same event since tennis turned professional in 1968, and the 23-year-old is level with top-ranked Roger Federer on 16 Masters titles, one behind Andre Agassi's record.
In Charleston, South Carolina, Caroline Wozniacki's bid for a second title in two weeks came to a shuddering halt when she retired injured from her semifinal at the Family Circle Cup on Saturday.
The top-seeded Dane, who clinched her seventh career title in Ponte Vedra, Florida, last week, quit while trailing Russia's Vera Zvonareva 2-5 in the first set after injuring her right ankle in a tumble.
In the final, seventh-seeded Zvonareva will meet fourth seed Samantha Stosur of Australia, who beat Slovak seventh seed Daniela Hantuchova 6-3, 7-6 (2).
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