BARCELONARafael Nadal hailed a "dream start" to his clay court season after romping to his 10th Barcelona Open on Sunday after sweeping aside Austria's Dominic Thiem 6-4, 6-1. "It is two consecutive weeks winning, in Monte Carlo and here, two special tournaments for me, it is a dream start on clay," said Nadal. Nadal won in Barcelona between 2005-2009, 2011-13 and now in the last two years. Thiem had shocked world number one Andy Murray in Saturday's semi-finals and showed some early resistance. The world number nine even had his only break point of the match in the first game.

Source: Daily Nation April 30, 2017 17:14 UTC