Rafa Nadal beats Cameron Norrie in 2 units to maneuver into Barcelona semis

Rafael Nadal brushed apart Cameron Norrie 6-1, 6-4 to ease into the semifinals of the Barcelona Open on Friday and moved nearer to a record-extending twelfth title on the occasion.
After Nadal breezed by way of the primary set, Britain’s Norrie gained again a break within the second. Nadal, nevertheless, took the benefit proper again and closed it out when he transformed on a second match level by smashing a forehand simply inside the road.
“I had a good first set, dominating with my drive and moving the ball around,” Nadal stated. “In the second set I let up a bit and .. I need to make sure that doesn’t happen tomorrow.”
The top-seeded Nadal wanted three units to get previous Kei Nishikori and Ilya Ivashka within the first two rounds in Barcelona. Nadal is trying to rebound from a quarterfinal exit at Monte Carlo final week.
Nadal will subsequent face countryman Pablo Carreno after he gained a tightly contested quarterfinal with Diego Schwartzman 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.
Schwartzman was serving to win the match when Carreno rallied and gained three straight video games to shut it out.
Second-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-3, 6-3 for the Greek’s eighth straight-set victory in a row together with his title run final week at Monte Carlo.
Tsitsipas will subsequent face Jannik Sinner after he defeated Andrey Rublev 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-4.
The Barcelona Open was not held final 12 months due to the coronavirus pandemic.