Rafael Nadal defeats Cameron Norrie in straight sets to win Mexican Open title
Rafael Nadal continued winning streak in 2022 by defeating British number one Cameron Norrie 6-4 6-4 to secure the Mexican Open.
It was not long before (around the end of 2021), Nadal, 35, thought he might have to step down from professional tennis because of a foot injury, but has won all 3 tournaments he has played this year.
Rafa won a 21st major title at the Australian Open after triumphing at the Melbourne warm-up event.
“At the start of the year this was unthinkable,” said Rafael Nadal.
“A month and a half back nobody would have imagined it.”
Victory over the Brit Cameron Norrie extended Nadal’s career-best winning start to the season to a fifteenth victory.
The 4th seed, who beat incoming world number one Daniil Medvedev in the quarter finals, bagged the title in Mexico without dropping a set.
It is the 91st title of Rafael Nadal’s career and a 4th in Acapulco, having won his first as an 18-year-old seventeen years ago.
Nadal, who also won in 2013 and 2020, is now the event’s youngest and oldest champion.
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