Kei Nishikori, champion tournament Conde de Godo

Barcelona. (Editorial) -. Japanese Kei Nishikori won the championship in the tournament Conde de Godo Barcelona in the final after beating Colombian Santiago Giraldo in just two sets (6-2, 6-2). After defeating Latvian Gulbis in the semifinals, the Japanese have realized in the final of the Colombian clearly dominating his opponent from the bottom of the track.

Eighteen years after the Austrian Thomas Muster defeated the Chilean Marcelo Rios in three sets, the center court of RCT Barcelona lived a final round between two foreign players, this time unprecedented, because in the 62 editions of the tournament had never been a runner and another Colombian Japanese. The Godo, used in recent times to the domain of local players and especially the tyranny of Rafa Nadal, he saw a champion that was not Spanish since the victory of Gaston Gaudio in 2002. Today Nishikori, 24, and seventeen in the world ranking, destroyed all those statistics and Giraldo, who saw not get their hands on a solid rival, concentrated with a very consistent tennis game rarely accused whose ups and downs.

Giraldo, 26 and 65 in the ATP rankings, Barcelona confirmed on their maturity this season after reaching the semifinals at Houston and Vina del Mar. But today when looking for his first professional title, could do nothing against Regular tennis tremendously.

won the first two games of the final before losing the next eight and see how, in three quarters of an hour of party, and went down 6-2, 2-0. But the worst for Giraldo was not the result but have the feeling that this occurred despite playing to not be bad at all. Nishikori, seeded fourth in the tournament and had won four of five games so far had played before the coffee, playing with Japanese efficiency each point.

Giraldo should always stick a right over, make a extra effort to overcome the resistance of his opponent, this type of player you nitpicking, based desesperándote insistence.

Frustrated

without effectiveness has shown that the service throughout the competition, Colombia paid it repeatedly with the chair umpire for not singing out a couple of balls that Nishikori had returned to the lines. Still, Giraldo had ball ‘break’ to meet two the second set, but missed and definitely faltered party.

Nishikori took the next four games and the title not just make noise, Just as had been cast in the final after toppling the Spanish Roberto Bautista, Kazakhstan’s Andrey Golubev, Croat Marin Cilic and Latvian Ernests Gulbis. It is his second title of the season, also won in Memphis-the fifth of his career, the first earth and the first in Europe. And, of course, the first in Godo, where Japanese, already smelling near the ‘top-ten’, from now occupies the throne vacated by no less than the king of the earth, the world number one Rafael Nadal the Spanish.

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Kei Nishikori, champion tournament Conde de Godo