Four-time Madrid Open champion Rafael Nadal has won 14 out of 14 matches since the start of the clay-court season, and will play for a third successive title on Sunday. His opponent will be Austrian Dominic Thiem, who defeated Pablo Cuevas 6-4, 6-4.
Date: May 14, 2017
Match time: 6 PM local time / noon EDT – New York, Montreal / 5 PM BST – United Kingdom / 6 PM CET – Spain, France, Germany, Italy / Monday 2 AM AEDT – Melbourne. To convert to your local time, use this website.
Rafa leads his FedEx ATP Head2Head series with Thiem 4-1, with all five of their matches coming on clay. Rafa dropped just five games in defeating Thiem two weeks ago in the Barcelona final.
Rafa, who moved to No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Race To London with a quarter-final win over David Goffin on Friday, will bid to tie Novak Djokovic atop the Masters 1000 titles leaderboard with his 30th crown. Should our champ lift the trophy in Madrid, he will overhaul Roger Federer in the rankings table and return to the world’s top four.
GOOD LUCK & VAMOS RAFA!
Source: ATP World Tour
MONTE CARLO BARCELONA AND MADRID ! OUTSTANDING AMAZING SPECTACULAR !
CONGRATULATIONS RAFA . YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY TO #1 ! VAMOS RAFA !
RAFA, YOU ARE AMAZING.
My hero, my champ!!! King of Clay!!! Congrats — 2017 your year Rafa!!! Awesome!!! So happy for you!! 🏆🏆🏆👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😁😁😁😘😘
The king, the Master and the God of Clay .
SÍÍÍÍ VAMOOOSSS KING RAFA❣️🤴🏻🎉🏆🇪🇸 Love love looove it – soo happy for you Champ – Well done sweetheart 🎾💪🏼😍
CONGRATULATIONS 🤗😘
The best of luck in Rome 😃🍀
Many congratulations, Rafa! Such a nail-bitter. So happy for you and everyone. 😊
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Firstly well done to Thiem , a great player and a future no. 1 seed. But for now
Game , Set and soon to be clay Court Season to Rafa Nadal.
Happy, Happy Days , can life get any better.
🏆🇪🇸😀🏆🇪🇸😀🏆🇪🇸😀🏆🇪🇸😀🏆🇪🇸😀🏆🇪🇸😀🏆🇪🇸😀🏆🇪🇸😀🏆🇪🇸😀🏆.
RAFA, You Are-
BRILLIANT, DAZZLING, EXCELLENT, EXCEPTIONAL, FANTASTIC, FIRST-RATE, GIFTED, GLORIOUS, GREAT, MAGNIFICENT, MARVELOUS, OUTSTANDING, PHENOMENAL, RADIANT, REMARKABLE, SCINTILLATING,SHARP, SPARKLING, SPLENDID, SUPERB, TALENTED, TERRIFIC, TREMENDOUS, WONDERFUL, WORLD CLASS, ect…
There are not enough words in the English language to describe you
NOW GO AND CONQUER ROME
A lovely pattern is emerging. Rafa is up a set and an early break for the 4th match on the trot – I’m loving this.
Goodness me – that was just like the old days. What a close set of tennis and thiem playing really well but we’ll done rafa for getting the 1st set. Brilliant final.
Great work , just one more set now Rafa , the trophy is in your grasp