Tennis: Nadal scores an epic victory over Taylor Harry Fritz and reaches the semi-finals of Wimbledon

The Spaniard sustained an abdominal injury, but went on and changed history to win 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (10-4). His next rival is the Australian Kyrgios.

Rafael Nadal (4th in the world ranking) qualified for the semifinals of Wimbledon after an epic victory against American Taylor Harry Fritz (14th) of 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 and 7-6 (10-4). The third Grand Slam of the season, played on grass, distributed 40,350,000 pounds of prize money.

The 36-year-old Spaniard recovered from an abdominal injury that almost forced him to leave in the second set and achieved a historic victory, after beating the first two sets. The Mallorcan native fought about four and a half hours to get into the top four in the competition.

At the moment where Nadal he felt the pain, sought medical attention and was then taken to the locker room to be treated by a kinesiologist. His father (Sebastian) and his sister María Isabel made signs for him to leave the meeting and focused on his health, but the tennis player rejected those recommendations.

Nadal

The Australian Open and Roland Garros champions will seek the Wimbledon title to reach the US Open with a chance to win four Grand Slams of the season. To date he is the highest winner of titles of this attribute (he has won 22) and he is going for new achievements in his career.

history vs. Fritz it was 2-1 in favor of Nadalwho lost in the last antecedent in this year’s Indian Wells Masters 1,000 final: there’s the Spanish He is also leaving. due to rib injury. The first rivalry between the two was in Acapulco 2020.

Wimbledon semi-finals

The next opponent of Nadal will be australian Nick Kyrgios (40th), who has never been to a Grand Slam and agreed to the definition thanks to the victory against the Chilean Christian Garin (43rd) of 6-4, 6-3 and 7-6 (7-5). Another meeting was between Serbian Novak Djokovic (3rd) and the British cameron norrie (12th).

Source: Tycsports

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