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“Just trying my best to keep dreaming. Tomorrow is another day to keep dreaming and to keep playing in front of this amazing crowd, and that to me is everything.”

My updated piece on #Nadal 's run in Madrid.
Jiri Lehecka next
christopherclarey.substack.com/p/nadal-resurf…

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Tuesday's Center Court order of play in Madrid Begins at 11 am local time

#Nadal and Lehecka last on, likely around 930/10 pm in #Madrid

Men's Round of 16 #Madrid

7 of the top 8 seeds still in it

1 Sinner 📸 v 16 Khachanov
5 Ruud v Auger-Aliassime
3 Medvedev v 17 Bublik
Nadal v 30 Lehecka

8 Hurkacz v 12 Fritz
4 Zverev v 21 Cerundolo
7 Rublev v 24 Griekspoor
2 Alcaraz v 23 Struff

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Aryna Sabalenka continues to thrive on Madrid clay. Stops the in-form American Danielle Collins 4-6 6-4 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals

Tuesday QFs
1 Swiatek v 11 Haddad Maia
8 Jabeur v 18 Keys

Wednesday QFs
4 Rybakina v Putintseva
2 Sabalenka📸 v Mirra Andreeva

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Rafael Nadal, at age 37, continues his comeback run in Madrid. Needed 3 hours after torrid start but defeats Argentine veteran Pedro Cachin 6-1 6-7 (5-7) 6-3

Three straight wins on his beloved clay and a tough one without a day's rest coming in Rd of 16 vs talented Jiri Lehecka

This after their extended and warm conversation at the net, which Cachin initiated

“Just trying my best to keep dreaming. Tomorrow is another day to keep dreaming and to keep playing in front of this amazing crowd, and that to me is everything.”

My updated piece on #Nadal 's run in Madrid.
Jiri Lehecka next
christopherclarey.substack.com/p/nadal-resurf…

#getty

Rafael Nadal, at age 37, continues his comeback run in Madrid. Needed 3 hours after torrid start but defeats Argentine veteran Pedro Cachin 6-1 6-7 (5-7) 6-3

Three straight wins on his beloved clay and a tough one without a day's rest coming in Rd of 16 vs talented Jiri Lehecka

Big, tough win for Madison Keys who defeats her American compatriot Coco Gauff 7-6 (4) 4-6 6-4 to reach the quarters in #MadridOpen

13 double faults for Gauff

Keys 3-2 vs Gauff and has beaten her on hard, grass and now clay

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Seen some good drop shots against Nadal in the last couple weeks. That was one of the worst. Nadal pounces and goes back up a break in the third set against Cachin. But no guarantees today

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Love when #tennis photographer Clive Brunskill goes for a stroll

Always finds a new way to look at something familiar

La Caja Magica

Photo of the Day

Alcaraz strikes a pose in #madrid

📸Thomas Coex

Cornet will call it a career at Roland Garros. One of the best battlers (and best interviews) on tour. Also a published author. Will make a terrific commentator if that's the path she chooses.

Crazy, nervy set ends with Pedro Cachin hitting a backhand return winner off a fine wide Nadal serve

Takes the tiebreaker 7-5 to force a third set in #Madrid

Nadal's depth hurting him. We'll see about his body. Well over two hours and counting. Big test early in comeback

Cachin serves for the second set a second time and....does not win a point

Tiebreaker! With Cachin not projecting a great deal of belief under duress but with Nadal's level fluctuating wildly.

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Nadal up 6-1 on Cachin in Madrid R32, then goes down two breaks in the second, hitting far too short from the baseline. But Cachin can't close and fails to convert two set points.

Broken back a second time on a nervy double fault

5-5 in the second

That's your update

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Madison Keys, down 2-5 , comes back to win the first set 7-6 (4) against Coco Gauff in this all-American round of 16 in #Madrid

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Nadal looked much more like #Nadal in #Madrid

And the draw opens. My latest for Tennis & Beyond

christopherclarey.substack.com/?utm_source=su…

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Women's singles #MMOPEN
Round 16

1 Swiatek v Sorribes Tormo
5 Sakkari v 11 Haddad Maia
3 Gauff v 18 Keys
8 Jabeur v 9 Ostapenko

10 Kasatkina v Putintseva
4 Rybakina v Bejlek
12 Paolini v Mirra Andreeva
2 Sabalenka v 13 Collins📸

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