Rafael Nadal becomes just the fourth man to achieve 1,000 singles victories in the Open Era, behind Jimmy Connors (1,274), Roger Federer (1,242) and Ivan Lendl (1,068). "One negative thing about 1,000 wins is you are very old because to win 1,000 matches you need to have a very long career, but I am super happy," Nadal said in courtside. Lopez, 39, won a scarcely believable 93 percent of his first serve points and also sent down eight aces as he wrapped up the opening set in style. With both players evenly matched, the second set stayed on serve before Nadal edged a tiebreak to send the contest to a decider. Nadal broke Lopez in his first service game of the third set and then showed his usual levels of laser-like focus to close out the match.

Source: dna November 04, 2020 21:11 UTC