BARCELONA OPEN BANC SABADELL: DAY 7 MEDIA NOTES Sunday, 29 April 2018 Real Club de Tenis Barcelona 1899 | Barcelona, Spain | 23-29 April 2018 Draw: S-48, D-16 | Prize Money: €2,510,900 | Surface: Clay ATP World Tour Info Tournament Info ATP PR & Marketing ATPWorldTour.com BarcelonaOpenBancSabadell.com Maria Garcia-Planas:
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[email protected] Facebook: @ATPWorldTour @BarcelonaOpenBancSabadell TV & Radio: TennisTV.com NADAL AIMS FOR 11th TITLE AGAINST #NEXTGENATP STAR TSITSIPAS • 10-time Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell champion and World No. 1 Rafael Nadal of Spain will try to capture another title in Barcelona when he squares off in the final against 19-year-old #NextGenATP player Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece, who is making his ATP World Tour final debut. Nadal and Tsitsipas will meet for the first time on Tour, neither player having dropped a set en route to the title match. • Nadal is riding a streak of 44 consecutive sets won on clay, having survived three set points held by qualifier Martin Klizan in the quarter-finals before defeating World No. 10 David Goffin in the semi- finals, 6-4, 6-0. Nadal has now won 18 straight clay-court matches since losing to Dominic Thiem in the quarter-finals at the ATP Masters 1000 in Rome last May. By reaching his 11th Barcelona final, Nadal has become the fourth player in the Open Era to claim 400 wins on clay (400-35), joining Guillermo Vilas (659-162), Manuel Orantes (502-150), and Thomas Muster (422-127). The Spanish superstar has reached his 113th ATP World Tour singles final and is going after his 77th ATP World Tour singles title against Tsitsipas.