{"id":76654,"date":"2019-05-09T23:04:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/?p=61789"},"modified":"2019-05-09T23:04:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:04:48","slug":"nadal-books-a-date-with-wawrinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/nadal-books-a-date-with-wawrinka\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadal books a date with Wawrinka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Rafael Nadal has filled the last available quarter-final spot at the Mutua Madrid Open. The Spaniard, charged with closing out the day\u2019s ATP play in the night session in the Manolo Santana Stadium, saw off Frances Tiafoe 6-3, 6-4, in one hour and 32 minutes to keep alive his chances of a sixth crown in the Caja M\u00e1gica.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The second seed seems to have rediscovered some form on the Madrid clay, in his tenth match this season on the slowest surface (8-2). The Mallorcan has now also reached his tenth quarter-final in eleven participations since the tournament moved to clay.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal only needed four games to inflict the first blow of the match on the American with a break (3-1) at the second time of asking. 83% of points on his serve (20\/24) was enough to secure the first set. With fresh legs, a blistering forehand and a confident backhand, the Spaniard was superior to his adversary in every facet of the game. Even when he was asked big questions, he was able to come out on top.<\/p>\n<p>The world number 2\u2019s first difficulties of the match came in the fourth game of the second set at 1-2 and 30-40. Having saved himself from danger, he immediately returned the threat and took the lead once more at 4-2. The Balearic Islander then held on to his lead until he had sewn up the match.<\/p>\n<p>In the quarters, Nadal will take on Stan Wawrinka, who knocked out sixth seed Kei Nishikori today, 6-3, 7-6(3). The Spaniard and the Swiss have met twenty times before (17-3), one of which was in the 2013 Mutua Madrid Open final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>Did you know\u2026?<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<wbr \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<wbr \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the quarter-finals, Nadal will be bidding for victory number 20 this season. The Spaniard has a win record of 19-4 this year. His return on clay in 2019 is 8-2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal has filled the last available quarter-final spot at the Mutua Madrid Open. The Spaniard, charged with closing out the day\u2019s ATP play in the night session in the Manolo Santana Stadium, saw off Frances Tiafoe 6-3, 6-4, in one hour and 32 minutes to keep alive his chances of a sixth crown in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[15,688,117,694],"class_list":["post-76654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mutua-news","tag-caja-magica-en","tag-mutua-madrid-open-2019-en","tag-rafael-nadal-en","tag-stan-wawrinka-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}