Rafael Nadal not fussing over misfortune to Dominic Thiem in Madrid

Claycourt ruler Rafael Nadal has played down the hugeness of his quarter-last thrashing by Austrian Dominic Thiem at the Madrid Open – a misfortune that finished a year-long winning streak on dirt and cost him the world number one positioning.

The 31-year-old Spaniard looked relentless going into his Friday conflict with fifth seed Thiem, having won 50 back to back sets on the red earth, however he was well beaten 7-5 6-3.

Adventitiously, it was Thiem who keep going beat Nadal on mud, finally year’s Rome Masters, right away before the Spaniard rampaged to a tenth French Open title without dropping a set.

Nonetheless, Nadal immediately slapped down any thought that world number seven Thiem knows the mystery of beating the best ever type of claycourt tennis.

“Indeed, three weeks prior I beat him 6-0 6-3. I don’t know whether that is an intense player or not. I don’t believe it’s that way,” Nadal, who additionally beat Thiem on the way to the Roland Garros title a year ago, told columnists.

“I think it has quite recently been where he was superior to me, same as half a month prior I was superior to him.

“In the event that he beats me three times in succession, possibly we can state he peruses my diversion and can beat me.”

Nadal will now center around one week from now’s competition in Rome where, should he win the title, he could recover the main positioning from incredible opponent Roger Federer who has picked to sit out the claycourt season in arrangement for Wimbledon and past.

Not that the Mallorcan will lose any rest over it.

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“You can’t be number one when you’ve been not playing for five months,” he said. “I think from Shanghai (a year ago) till Monte-Carlo, I hadn’t completed a solitary competition. We’re discussing a great deal of months that I surrendered.

“This year till now I had just a single or two competitions that I had played. This is the truth of this current year.

“I’m not going to keep the main today. Toward the finish of the year we will perceive what happens.

“I think I set myself in a decent position. I am three in the (ATP Race), which is the most imperative thing. Regardless I have two great weeks on mud, and after that I’ll continue pushing ahead.”

Nadal finished 2017, in which he took his amazing pummel count to 16 by winning the French and U.S. Open titles, with knee damage and afterward had a hip issue at the current year’s Australian Open that constrained him to stop against Marin Cilic in the last eight.

He came back to Tour activity just in April, winning the Monte Carlo title for an eleventh time before moving through the attract Barcelona for his eleventh triumph there.

Regardless of being off-key against Thiem, he said he was presently completely fit as Paris looms.

“What makes me cheerful is I feel fit, can rival conceivable outcomes each and every week. This is my last objective: to be glad. That is what I’m taking a shot at,”

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