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RAFAEL NADAL will be one step closer to securing the Calendar Slam when he faces Nick Kyrgios THIS FRIDAY on Wimbledon's Centre Court.The Spanish icon.

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Rafael Nadal's Grand Slam story served up another dramatic chapter on Wednesday at Wimbledon, where the Spaniard held off a high-powered performance from ...

The match remained in the balance throughout an engrossing final set, but it was Nadal who raised his game under the pressure of the deciding-set tie-break. I need to be at 100% to keep having chances and that’s what I am going to try to do.” His next assignment in London is a semi-final with Nick Kyrgios, after the Australian was a 6-4, 6-3, 7-6(5) winner in his quarter-final matchup against Cristian Garin.

One of the greatest victories of his Wimbledon career was salvaged from the depths. Almost three hours after receiving treatment off-court for an abdominal ...

Nadal was undoubtedly freer as he took the fourth, his movement looser at the back of the court. It was a refusal to retire and he broke Fritz’s opening service game for the third time in the match, landing a crosscourt winner into the corner. His breathing appeared heavy but he returned to flash winners off the forehand side and it was followed by improved, steely hitting from the baseline as he went on to break Fritz’s serve and level the match. He found it in a thrilling deciding tie-break, bludgeoning the ball with a new release of aggression from the back of the court, to pull off the impossible once again. Through four rounds at Wimbledon, Nadal had appeared completely serene but he returned to the quarter-final stage to face not only the aggressive return game of a dangerous Fritz but also the lingering worries his weary physique now pose him. Unbowed and for now unbroken, Rafael Nadal continues to defy the realms of possibility.

Nadal left the court for treatment in the second set, but dug deep to beat Fritz after more than four hours. Tennis - Wimbledon - All England Lawn Tennis ...

Somehow, Nadal did it again, recovering from 2-1 down to force a decider, and fittingly it was a super tie-break that would decide the match. He had been able to put any injury doubts to one side in the opening four rounds, but they resurfaced on Centre Court against Fritz. I know when I feel something, but it’s nothing new, I’ve had those feelings for a couple days but today was the worst day.”

Rafael Nadal prevailed over the American Taylor Fritz in a fluctuating five-set quarter-final at Wimbledon to set up a semi-final against Nick Kyrgios.

Having squandered a break point that would have set him up, Nadal served to stay in the championships after nearly three hours of fretful struggle at 4-5, sealing it with his fourth ace of the match. But he threw it in the bin on his own serve, Fritz held and Nadal matched him, landing them up in the 10-point tie-break after 4hr 8min. Nadal broke early in the fourth set and held to lead 4-2, but overcooked a forehand to hand back the advantage at 4-4. Those ambitions took a hit in the eighth game, when a double fault put him 3-5 down, and Fritz punished him with two more aces to take the set. He is a win against Nick Kyrgios away from the final – possibly for a 60th time against Novak Djokovic – and the chance to win his third grand slam title on the spin. Taylor Fritz, 6ft 5in of towering American self-belief, did his best to bury a wounded legend here on Wednesday, but the 36-year-old Rafael Nadal would not stay down – against the advice of his worried father – and prevailed over five fluctuating sets to reach his eighth Wimbledon semi-final.

An injured Rafael Nadal somehow managed to continue his quest to secure a historic Calendar Slam in 2022 after he roared back to beat Taylor Fritz.

It was due reward for a set in which Fritz played superbly well, especially given he was dealing with an injured opponent - never easy - and the pressure of a possible first Grand Slam semi-final. Nadal came steaming out of the blocks to take a 5-0 lead, but once again Fritz recovered to 6-3. "I honestly enjoy a lot playing these kind of matches, in front of you guys, I can’t thank you enough. Nadal said: “The body in general is fine. You'd never have said that in the remainder of the set Nadal would win just one more game, but that was what happened as Fritz wrestled his way back into the contest, breaking back in the sixth game, and then again in the eighth to romp away with it, 6-3. He managed to return to the court after leaving to receive treatment in the locker room, but he was not able to move freely and it appeared to be only a matter of time until the inevitable handshake at the net.