Summary and highlights of Rafa Nadal 1-2 Alex de Miñaur in United Cup

Thank you all for joining us in this intense duel with an exciting ending, it has been a pleasure to be with all of you. See you all again!

 

The Australian closes the match with a direct serve.

Alex breaks serve and serves to win the match
 

Nadal was two points away from winning the match, but the Australian took the game and continues the match;

 

Game in white of Rafa Nadal that closes it with a volley and could close the match to the rest;

Miñ wins on serve and we reach the final stretch of the set.

It beganó behind the Spanish tennis playeró s, but gave him back to get ahead 

The Spaniard reacts by breaking serve to tie the set again.

Alex de Miñaur breaks serve and takes the lead for the first time in the third quarter.

Nadal's stroke looks long and 2-2 in third set

Game c & oacute; mode for Rafa Nadal in the third game of this final set & nbsp;

Nadal had four break balls, but none could take advantage of them and took the game Alex de Miñ aur

The first game of the third set is taken by Nadal with white game with the service 

 

The Australian came back from 0-40 to save three break balls and in his second set ball closed the set.

Nadal goes out the ball and returns Miñ to break the service, take & aacute; to close the second set

 

Nadal did not take advantage of his break ball and the Australian takes advantage in the second set.

It came the longest game of the match that ended again breaking the Australian's service;

Game in white for Alex Miñaur who takes the lead for the first time in this second set.

The Australian tennis player responds by breaking the fourth serve on his fourth break attempt in this game.
 

With a volley Nadal begins the second set breaking the service & nbsp;

 

Miñ's return goes wide and Nadal closes the first set in 47 minutes.
 

Nadal turns around a 0-40 to break serve, and serve to close the first set.

Blank game by Nadal

The Spaniard reacts and takes advantage of the opponent's mistakes to reestablish a draw
 

Alex de Miñ aur takes advantage of his first break ball to break the service;

With a direct serve the Australian tennis player closed the game;

Nadal took the third game after throwing a parallel 

 

Alex de Miñaur turns around a 0-30 deficit to win his first game;

The first game is taken by Nadal with the service after a volley 

The players are already warming up on the court, starting with Rafa Nadal;

These are the statistics between the Spanish and Australian 
 

If the tie is still alive, he will play the next game. The doubles with Paula Badosa this coming Tuesday against the Australians Stosur and Peers

The Spanish tennis player only lost or won. eight games during 2022 and five of these losses occurred in the final stretch of the year 

The Spanish tennis player already eliminated from the United Cup could lose second place in the ATP Ranking to Tsitsipas or Ruud, both alive in this tournament.

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This is the kick-off time for the match in several countries:
Argentina: 04:00 hrs.
Bolivia: 03:00 hrs.
Brazil: 04:00 hrs.
Chile: 02:00 hrs.
Colombia: 02:00 hrs.
Ecuador: 02:00 hrs.
Spain: 9:00 hrs.
Mexico: 2:00 hrs.
Paraguay: 3:00 hrs.
Peru: 02:00 hrs.
Uruguay: 03:00 hrs.
Greece: 10:00 hrs. 
Serbia: 9:00 hrs.

"I don't need to continue playing tennis for any reason. What drives me to continue is my passion for the sport; when I lose it, I will quit and you will be the first to know.Lately, every time I come to a press conference it seems like I have to retire, it is as if you are very interested in that happening. Don't go on about it because I'm here to play tennis and the time to retire has not come at the moment. I have the feeling that I need to improve a lot of things to be able to compete for important things, but also that I have enough time to get it done in these next two weeks. I know I can do things a lot better, but I wouldn't say today's game was a disaster either. I need to be more solid, make fewer mistakes, and improve my physicality because I lacked some speed today. As I play matches I will get better at making decisions in important moments."

The United Cup will showcase equality at the highest level of the sport when the world's best players come together and compete head-to-head in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney from Thursday, December 29 to Sunday, January 8, 2023.Each host city will have two groups of three countries, competing in a round-robin format. The group winners in each city will play for one of the three semifinal berths. Three City Champions will advance to the United Cup Final Four in Sydney from Friday, January 6 to Sunday, January 8. The next best performing team from the group stage will complete the quartet. The United Cup trophy will visit each host city before the first winner is crowned.

The 23-year-old Australian tennis player had not played since late November in the Davis Cup final in which he lost against Canadian Auger Aliassime. He already made his debut in this tournament and lost against Norrie, who defeated him in two sets. This tennis player is the current Atlanta ATP champion and is currently ranked number 24 in the world;

After a good year of Nadal winning the Grand Slams of the Australian Open and Roland Garros. Despite that endedó the year with many doubts and faces the 2023 with the aim of revalidating the Australian Open, for that isá playing in this tournament in which already debutó last December 31 where he was overturned by the Britishá nico Norrie 

Three times Rafa Nadal and Alex de Miñ aur have met with a balance of three victories for the Spanish tennis player who has a record of 8-1 in sets against this rival. The last time they met was in 2020 in the ATP Cup by selections in which Nadal came from behind to win. A year earlier they also met in Australia, but in this case in the third round of the Australian Open with a 0-3, same result in 2018 in their first duel at Wimbledon 

Rafael Nadal and Alex de Minaur will face each other in the first match of the duel between Spain and Australia in the United Cup, although it will be an inconsequential duel because Great Britain has already qualified for the next round and Spain and Australia have no chance of qualifying, since only one country advances to the next round;
 

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