adminLONDON. — Rafael Nadal showed he was getting back to his best as he crushed Andy Murray at the World Tour Finals on Wednesday with an impressive 6-4, 6-1 victory. The Spanish fifth seed was in dominant form as the British world number two’s game collapsed in front of a home crowd at the 17 800-capacity O2 Arena in London. The resurgent Nadal is now through to the semi-finals of the season-ending tennis tournament, disputed on a hard court between the year’s top eight players.
In today’s final round-robin matches in their four-man group, Murray will face Swiss fourth seed Stan Wawrinka, with the winner joining Nadal in the last four. The Spaniard’s spot in the semis was confirmed after seventh-seeded compatriot David Ferrer’s hopes of making it out of the group evaporated with a straight sets defeat to Wawrinka – 7-5, 6-2.
The first set of the match between Nadal and Murray was a high-level contest featuring impressive rallies and smart drop shots, but in the second, Murray’s game fell away as Nadal turned up the power. Nadal, beset by problems during the worst year of his career, at one stage slumped to 10th in the world – his lowest position since 2005. — AFP.
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