Nadal, without a chance in the Masters after his two defeats against the American Taylor Fritz and the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, improved a lot and managed to return to the path of victory after an unusual streak of four consecutive defeats, something that had not happened to him since 2009.
Nadal, winner of 22 Grand Slam titles, finished the match with an important number of 38 winners, 16 of them thanks to a serve that worked at a high level, but also with much more aggressiveness from the baseline with his drive and with a lot of network efficiency.
The 16 unforced errors were also good news. Even so, Ruud did not give him too many facilities with his service and there was always great parity in the game, which lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes.
Norwegian Ruud (4) had already secured first place in the Green Group and a place in the semi-finals.
The second semifinalist is the American Fritz (9), who beat Canadian Auger-Aliassime (6) 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5) in the last match of the day at the Pala Alpitour in Turin and 6-2, in 2 hours and 47 minutes.
On Friday the Red Group of the ATP Finals will be completed and the fourth semifinalist will be defined, who will accompany the Serbian Djokovic (8) who has already won the zone.
In the first round, Djolkvic will face the Russian Daniil Medvedev, already eliminated, and in the second game the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (3) will face the Russian Andrey Rublev (7), who will define the second classified.
Source: Ambito
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