Win for the ninth time Monte Carlo tournament Rafael Nadal thrilled as if for the first time, and the Spanish burst of joy, and kneeling held at the Country Club Centre Court victory against Gael Monfils 7-5, 5-7, 6-0.
Hincado folded at the bottom of the track after connecting a formidable parallel right with that ended the resistance of a Monfils desaborlado and physically beaten, screaming with joy, he began Nadal to celebrate his victory in the final hundredth of his career .
After falling this year in Doha, losing in the semifinals of Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Indian Wells, Nadal won the title 68 of its history, in two hours and 46 minutes to back win in a Masters 1000 after two years (Madrid 2014).
"We have worked hard to live moments like this," then said the awards ceremony, recalling how much drought has had to live in the shadow of Novak Djokovic, and how much bitterness after pass last season without winning a big or a Masters 1000 .
Monte Carlo title means precisely match the 28 Masters 1000 Novak, defeated the first change by Czech Jiri Vesely, and placed one record of Argentine Guillermo Vilas in terms of tournaments won on clay (49).
An emotional kiss his girlfriend Xisca Perello signed the triumph of Nadal, but before lefty Manacor had to exhaust Monfils, the first French contesting the final of Monte Carlo when Cedric Pioline won it in 2000. The tennis player Paris offered resistance hardest of all previous matches played on land against the Spanish, and there were times when he believed in the victory.
He had never been able to win a set off Nadal on earth (4-0 and 8-0 in sets), and Sunday became the second of the end, because I knew realize that playing one on one the considered the best player in history on clay was a suicide and decided to change rhythms, cocking his serve and his prodigious right bombard the Spanish defense.
There were times when the Frenchman stumbled and could not seem to stand. But touched by a desire to overcome almost magical, Gael resisted as he could to win the second set and then raise doubts. Something that vanished almost immediately after returning from the locker room Nadal, not down the accelerator in the third set.
"It's been an amazing week and I congratulate Rafa because you've been incredible," admitted Monfils later killed because he was never so close.
And nine titles in Monte Carlo and Roland Garros, Nadal faces this week beginning Barcelona, which has won eight times, and where last year fell in the second round against Italian Fabio Fognini. Follow after Madrid, where was defeated against Andy Murray in the final, and Rome, where yielded to Stan Wawrinka in the quarter and Roland Garros, final of the clay season, where Djokovic also alighted into quarters.
"I'm not buried yet" seems to be the message Nadal sent to the four winds. The next meetings will answer you.
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