Highlights and best points of Nadal 2-1 Bergs in Rome Masters 1000

From less to more Rafa Nadal today to advance to the second round. For the first time in this 2024 he manages to come back in a match. The Spaniard left the mistakes and was very aggressive to take the victory. In the next round will be measured and against a top seed, the Polish Kurkacz, who is already the ninth in the world and already knows what it is to win a title in this 2024.

GAME, SET AND MATCH! Rafael Nadal wins the match playing with sufficiency in his serve and left him no options to complicate. Rafa wins 4-6, 6-3 and 6-4. and is in the second round of the Rome Masters.

Bergs took advantage of his serve and did his homework, he gave Rafa no chance when he had won a point and now makes the set 5-4. Nadal serves to win the match.

Game for Rafa Nadal. The Spaniard recovered to a 30-0 and managed to move Bergs to make it impossible to get three breaks up again. He keeps his serve, although he can easily look for a break to end the match.

Game for Bergs, who took advantage of his serve to not give Rafa many opportunities to play his game.

Great game by Rafa Nadal! The Spaniard came back from a 40-0 that he generated with unforced errors. The bronga of Bergs is very much seeing the number of options he had to break that he could not take advantage of.

Zizou Bergs gets out of an awkward situation and holds serve in this game. 

40-40. Nadal has had a break ball, but Bergs has avoided it. The Belgian is in trouble and a double break would be a little difficult to fix it. 

Rafa confirms the break. Good game of the Spaniard, who takes confidence with the service. Only the tape has prevented this game will not end in white 

He went to the ground and managed to end up winning the point. 

BREAK!!! Just like in the previous set. Quick break to take the lead. Although there is still a long way to go. The Spaniard dominates from the baseline. The comeback is getting closer and closer. 

30-40. Break ball for Rafa Nadal. If he takes advantage of it, he gets ahead on the scoreboard. 

Although it costs Nadal with the service to win points quickly. He manages to close the first game after a drop shot, Bergs arrived, but left him way for the Spaniard to get a good volley. 

Bergs started well in the third set, but from a 40-0 lead it was 40-30. He finally pulled out a parallel to take the first set of the third set. 

Since he has returned to the courts this 2024, he has not been able to come back in any match. He has not been able to come back in any match. Will he do it today?

Rafa Nadal celebrated the victory in the second set, which forces to go to the third set. 

SET! With serve and forehand Rafa Nadal takes the second set. The match will be decided in the final third set. 

With Rafa problems with the service in this final stretch of the second set, something that will have to improve if you want to have options in the match. 

40-40. Rafa Nadal avoids a break ball. That would have made things very difficult. He is two points away from closing the second set

Rafa Nadal has the option to close the second set on serve. 

Despite Rafa's return winner, Bergs closed out the game with a return winner. 

Again Rafa comes out on top in a game where Berg started with 0-30 to the rest. The Spaniard reacted, who is only one game away from forcing the third set in this match. 

0-30. Nadal starts the game again with problems in the service. 

Bergs direct serve, the third of this match to close this game. Now it's Rafa Nadal's turn to serve

Rafa Nadal is saved. Compromising situation of the Spanish tennis player who avoids the break. After a good serve Bergs sent the ball out. Two games to force the final third set the Spaniard 

40-40. Rafa saved the break. The Belgian tennis player's shot went out. Nadal celebrates with euphoria. He has to get out of this tight situation 

40-A. Rafa had a 40-15 to close. He sent the ball with his forehand to the doubles hallway and attention that now has the option to get the break the Belgian tennis player. 

Zizoue Bergs adds her first game in this second set. 

RAFA NADAL IS ANOTHER. Much more aggressive in this second set. As in the first set, he closes it in white. The Spanish tennis player confirms the break and leads the second set.

BREAK! Berg saved the first with a good forehand. However, he made an error, double fault and Rafa Nadal opens advantage at the start of the second set. 

15-40. Two break balls for Rafa Nadal. The Spaniard has started squeezing the rest from the first moment in this second set. 

The game is resumed after the break. Rafa wins the first game of the set and makes it in white. After a break of ten minutes 

Bergs has decided to sit down, while Rafa Nadal remains standing waiting for the resumption of the match. 

The match has been stopped because a fan is being treated. It seems that he has suffered a heat stroke

SET! He takes his first set ball Bergs and finishes off the net to take the first set, closing the game in white. 

Rafa Nadal will have to row a lot if he wants to turn the scoreboard. 

40-0. Unstoppable the Belgian tennis player. Three balls to close the first set

BREAK! What a mistake by Nadal. He saved the first one. In the second one he double faults. Attention because now Zizou Bergs will serve to close the first set. 

0-40. Rafa in trouble. Three break balls for the opponent. 

Bergs continues to serve comfortably and we are entering the decisive moments of the first set. 

Rafa wins again, who clenches his fists and is encouraged. First the lob of Bergs went long after the rise of the former world number 1 and after a good serve of Rafa Nadal, Zizou returned it to the net. 

Tight serves from the Belgian tennis player, who is also daring to go up to the net and is managing to equalize the match. The first set is at 3-3 on the scoreboard. 

BREAK! Finally the Belgian gets the break, after Rafa's forehand touches the net and doesn't go in. Bergs will serve to place the tie at three. Nadal has to keep on rowing in this first set.

40-40. Rafa saves it. The Belgian tennis player's ball goes to the net. 

30-40. The Belgian has reacted and the Belgian wants the counter break. 

BREAK! It could not be in the first two. The Belgian saved the first one after a good drop shot where he was lucky with the net. Then Rafa sent it to the doubles corridor. Although he manages to get ahead on the scoreboard, after Zizou in the exchange left the ball in the net. Rafa is already ahead in the first set.

0-40. Good rest of Rafa after the rise of Bergs. He touched the Belgian, but sent it to the net. Three break balls for the Spaniard. 

First problems for Rafa, as the Belgian tightened and came to place the equal to 30. The Mallorcan with two good serves takes the game ahead. With the 40-30, the rest of Bergs stayed in the net.

Bergs also starts adding. Despite the start of 30-0 was complicated after a double fault. Although he ended up responding with an ace. 

Good start for Rafa. Solid with the service to get ahead on the scoreboard. Only one point with the rest of the Belgian 

To the rest, Bergs starts

The two players are already on center court. The match will start in no time 

The match will be refereed by 57-year-old Swedish referee Mohamed Lahyani. 

The Czech tennis player Noskova has won in two sets by 6-3 and 7-6 has qualified in the round of 32 of the Masters 1000 in Rome. Rafa Nadal and Bergs will next take to the court

The Balearic tennis player has made a previous training before his debut at the Masters 1000 in Rome. 

It is being disputed by the Czech Noskova against the Italian Stefanini. The first match was won by Noskova and in the second one there is maximum equality. When this match is over, the Rafa Nadal vs. Zizou Bergs match will be played. 

This is what the Spanish tennis player said at the press conference prior to his debut at the Rome Masters 1000. "I'm excited to play here, where I keep unforgettable moments. It's my third tournament in a row and that's good news. I have to keep watching day by day, but I'm happy with how I feel," said the former world No. 1. 

"My evolution is not every day the same. Even after Barcelona, I had some difficult moments in Madrid. Even here on the first day. But in an overall perspective, the line is upward, no doubt. So yes, happy to be today where I am because a month ago for me it was almost impossible to think that I could play in Barcelona, then in Madrid, and now to be here in Rome," Rafa said of his sensations.

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Zizou Bergs will play in a main draw at Masters 1000 for the third time in his career. The three have been between last year and this although in both he fell in his first game. It was in Miami 2023 and in the recent tournament at the Mutua Madrid Open 

The 37-year-old Mallorcan tennis player already said that this was going to be his last year as a professional tennis player. In Madrid he said goodbye and received a nice tribute. This Wednesday Rafa starts his 19th participation in Rome and everything indicates that it will be the last

Rafa Nadal, who was not there last year where he missed practically the entire 2023 calendar, is now back in Rome where he has reaped so much joy

In a few minutes the match between Rafa Nadal and Zizou Bergs will begin, both the preview and the minute by minute of the match can be followed here on VAVEL