rafael nadal news latest

down goes frasier okay not exactly but

sort of

u.s open action robin a doll looking to

extend his dominance over americans 

31-2

hasn't lost to one since james blake at

the 2005 u.s open

he's facing francis tiafoe and the doll

with the 

strip tiapo returns and the

doll hits it long so tiago goes up 4-3

in the first set still the first set

tiafoe

nice 

little rally off the serve

but tiafoo's gonna get in the doll

runner here

and then

just had all the touch tiafa wins

 the

first set 6'4 huge for him he'd never

won a single set against nadal this

being their third match up

nadal 

wins the second set now now in the

third it's game point for tiafoe great

rally here as well there was quite a

 few

of these nobody really making too many

mistakes

choppa is going to have a beautiful shot

down the line

oh

and 

he just starts running to the chair

we good we good nadal's not happy tiafoe

however fired up

4-3 now still the 

third set

stop me if you're tired of this another

great rally from these two

it really was about who was going

 to win

this thing not who was going to lose it

tiafoe a little soft shot

gets the point he goes up 40 15.

look 

at the touch

there were so many times rafa just sort

of was like whatever

next he also served

ace

he wins the third 

set six four

could this be happening

could this no are we his box is feeling

at four set now nadal with advantage

you

're just thinking at some point it's

going to be rafa right

looked like at some point in the match

she often was

 slowing down a little bit

getting a little bit tired

nadal coming back he wins the first game

he's fired up

 it's 1-0 in the set still

in the four-set break point for tiafoe

and i mentioned nobody making mistakes

this 

was one

nice rally again

but in a match like this it was about

who was going to have the unforced

errors and

 nadal did

tiaco's fired up

4-3 in the set now nadal serving tiapo

up 5-3

look at the return

the crowd is into 

it match point now for

tiafoe he had a hard time breaking

roth is served but he was able to do it

and he does

 it when it counts tiafa with

the upset he wins three sets to one

advances to the quarterfinals

such a big deal 

as i mentioned it's just

the seventh time americans defeated one

of the big three of nadal fed or

djokovic in a major 

he's the first to do

so since sam query beat djokovic in 2016

at wimbledon again the doll entered

today's match with 

a 31-2 record in

majors against americans but the

spaniard takes his third such loss

today