Nadal beats Goffin and waits for Alcaraz in the quarterfinals of the Madrid Masters

Rafael Nadal achieved access to the quarterfinals of the Madrid Masters on Thursday by beating David Goffin 6-3, 6-4, in 1h 35m.

After having reappeared the day before, after a month and a half break due to a crack in the rib that occurred on March 19 in Indian Wells, the champion of 21 greats once again offered a good performance and survived a situation limit, by drawing four match balls against.

In this way, the man from Manacor disembarked in the penultimate season of the tournament for the 15th time, in his 19 participations.

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Now, Nadal awaits the winner of the duel between Carlos Alcaraz and the British Cameron Norrie (not before 8:00 p.m., Teledeporte and Movistar).

The Murcian turns 19 today and he already crossed paths with the Balearic in Madrid last year, when he lost 6-1 and 6-2.

However, the situation is very different.

The young man from El Palmar is number nine in the world and since then he has raised four trophies: Umag, Rio de Janeiro, Miami and Barcelona.

In the other matches of the day this Thursday, Andrei Rublev beat Daniel Evans (7-6(7) and 7-5) and Hubert Hurkacz beat Dusan Lajovic (7-5 ​​and 6-3), and both Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev went through thanks to the resignation of Andy Murray (ill) and the withdrawal of Lorenzo Musseti, respectively.

(Soon we will offer you the complete chronicle).

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