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Tribute: Rafa Hits 400 Clay-Court Match Wins

Rafael Nadal has become the fourth player in ATP World Tour history (since 1973) to record 400 clay-court match wins after his semi-final victory over David Goffin on Saturday at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. While Argentina’s Guillermo Vilas (659), Spain’s Manuel Orantes (502) and Austria’s Thomas Muster (422) have all won more matches on the red dirt, no player has achieved a better winning percentage on the surface than Nadal, according to the FedEx ATP Performance Zone. Over the past 15 seasons, ever since his first tour-level clay-court victory over Karel Kucera of Slovakia in the 2003 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters first round, Nadal has compiled a 400-35 match record on terre battue – a winning percentage of 91.9 – and...

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Nadal Advances To 11th Barcelona Final

Nadal Advances To 11th Barcelona Final

Entering Saturday’s action in Spain, Rafael Nadal had not lost a set in 10 previous semi-final appearances (20-0) at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. The World No. 1 showed no intention of letting slip that record. Nadal overcame an early break to cruise past World No. 10 David Goffin 6-4, 6-0 in one hour, 22 minutes, becoming the fourth player in the Open Era to win 400 tour-level matches on clay, joining Guillermo Vilas, Manuel Orantes and Thomas Muster. [ALSO LIKE] "Very happy," Nadal said. "I played I think my best match of the tournament so far, no doubt about that. It was a great first set in my opinion. Both of us played at a very high level." The...

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