{"id":5574,"date":"2019-01-24T19:21:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T19:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2019-01-24T19:21:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T19:21:38","slug":"rafael-nadal-defeats-stefanos-tsitsipas-in-semis-to-advance-to-australian-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/rafael-nadal-defeats-stefanos-tsitsipas-in-semis-to-advance-to-australian-open-final","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal Defeats Stefanos Tsitsipas in Semis to Advance to Australian Open Final"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rafael Nadal raises his arms in celebration after defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas in the semifinals at the Australian Open<\/p><\/div>Rafael Nadal put the next generation of tennis players on notice that he is far from giving up the reins yesterday at the Australian Open and Stefanos Tsitsipas can add his name to the list of one of those that was pushed out of the way as Nadal aims to win another Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n

It took Rafael Nadal<\/a> only minutes to put Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a>, and everyone else, that he is there to win and that any hope of Tsitsipas repeating his upset over Federer was not going to happen. It was clear that the upcoming player from Greece was out of his league with Nadal not once facing break point throughout all three sets and repeatedly breaking service going 6-2, 6-4, 6-0 to advance to the finals.<\/p>\n

After the third set, Tsitsipas stated that it felt like a different dimension of tennis adding,<\/p>\n

“He gives you no rhythm. He plays just a different game style than the rest of the players. He has this, I don’t know, talent that no other player has. I’ve never seen a player have this. He makes you play bad.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yesterday\u2019s semifinal match was almost a repeat of Nadal\u2019s third round match against Alex de Minaur and similar to that of the quarterfinal against Frances Tiafoe. Both young and upcoming stars in tennis, they quickly learned Nadal is still a force to be reckoned with. Nadal, who was questioned whether he was trying to make a point with the way he quickly controlled and defeated Tiafoe and de Minaur, commented that,<\/p>\n

“They don’t need any message, no. They are good. They’re improving every month. So it’s always a big challenge to play against them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n