Barcelona: Rafael Nadal won the Barcelona Open for the eighth time on Sunday after seeing off Nicolas Almagro 6-4, 6-3 in the final. Almagro took it to Nadal early on and built a 3-0 lead, but Nadal found his form and broke his fellow Spaniard in three of his next four service games to take the initiative for good.
It was Nadal's 54th career title and fourth this year, having made six straight finals after returning from a knee injury that had kept him off the courts since last summer.
The title comes one week after Nadal's eight-year reign at Monte Carlo ended in a loss to world No. 1 Novak Djokovic.
Nadal has won all 10 meetings with the 12th-ranked Almagro. He has won 39 straight matches on the red clay at Real Club de Tenis, with his last loss coming 10 years ago....
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09:25 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Barcelona: Nicolas Almagro and Juan Monaco both managed third-round wins at the Barcelona Open on Thursday before rain forced the postponement of matches. The two will meet in the quarter-finals after Almagro defeated fellow Spaniard Marcel Granollers 6-3, 6-4 on the outdoor red clay. Monaco outlasted Frenchman Jeremy Chardy in a long second-set tiebreaker to win 6-0, 7-6 (11). The rain bumped Rafael Nadal's match against Benoit Paire to Friday....
12:32 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Houston: John Isner and Nicolas Almagro, two of the biggest servers in tennis, aced their way into the final of the US Men's Clay Court Championship. Top-seeded Almagro of Spain, the ATP Tour leader with 261 aces, needed only 58 minutes to beat American wild-card Rhyne Williams 6-2, 6-1. Isner, second in tour aces with 251, recovered from a slow start to top defending champion Juan Monaco of Spain 1-6,...
09:17 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Houston: Top-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain defeated Italian Paolo Lorenzo 6-4, 6-4 on Friday to advance to the US Men's Clay Court semi-finals. Fifth-seeded American John Isner also advanced, hitting 19 aces to overpower Lithuania's Ricardas Berankis 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Almagro, ranked 12th in the world, will next face American wild card Rhyne Williams, who rallied from an 0-3 deficit in the third set to beat Spain's Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo,...
08:22 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Rafael Nadal beat Nicolas Almagro 7-5, 6-4 in one hour and 49 minutes, extending his perfect record in their head-to-head meetings to 9-0. ...
12:53 PM, Mar 02, 2013
With top-ranked Spain missing big guns Rafa Nadal, David Ferrer and Nicolas Almagro, the Canadians seized their chance. ...
09:40 AM, Feb 02, 2013
Almagro, the world number 11, was suffering the effects of his run to the last eight at the Australian Open. ...
11:25 PM, Jan 26, 2013
Fourth-seeded Ferrer will play either top-ranked Novak Djokovic, the defending champion, or Tomas Berdych in the semifinals. ...
11:38 AM, Jan 22, 2013
Eighth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic retired from his fourth-round match at the Australian Open with an injured left foot while trailing Nicolas Almagro 6-2, 5-1 on Sunday. ...
12:56 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Novak Djokovic retained his title at the World Tennis Championship exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi on Saturday by rallying past Nicolas Almagro of Spain 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-4. ...
10:13 AM, Dec 30, 2012
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic routed David Ferrer 6-0, 6-3 on Friday to reach the final of the World Tennis Championship exhibition tournament. Djokovic will face Spain's Nicolas Almagro in the final. ...
02:36 PM, Dec 29, 2012
Madrid: Spain captain Alex Corretja has defended his decision to pick Nicolas Almagro for the Davis Cup final after the holders were beaten 3-2 by Czech Republic when Almagro lost the decisive singles rubber to Radek Stepanek on Sunday. Corretja, in his first year in charge, had to field questions about why he didn't select Feliciano Lopez, whose big-serving style is seen as better suited to the zippy indoor court...
06:18 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Prague: The Czech Republic's Tomas Berdych brought the hosts level at 1-1 with holders Spain in the Davis Cup final with a battling five-set victory over Nicolas Almagro on Friday. The first day split leaves everything to play for in the reverse singles on Sunday. Spain, without the injured Rafa Nadal, are bidding for a fourth Davis Cup crown in five years, while the Czechs are aiming to become the...
08:34 AM, Nov 17, 2012
Madrid: World number five David Ferrer will lead Spain's bid to claim their fourth Davis Cup title in five years when the holders take on the Czech Republic in this month's final in Prague. Fourth-ranked Rafa Nadal is still sidelined with a knee injury so Ferrer, winner of Sunday's Paris Masters, will spearhead a team that includes Nicolas Almagro, Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez. "Ferrer's leadership has been important in...
07:07 PM, Nov 05, 2012
Valencia: David Ferrer cruised to an easy 6-4, 6-2 victory over fellow Spaniard Albert Ramos to reach the quarter-finals of the Valencia Open on Thursday. Ferrer, seeded No. 1 at the indoor tournament, used an effective serve plus four breaks of his 47th-ranked opponent in a much easier match after a labored first-round victory. The fifth-ranked Spaniard next faces Nicolas Almagro, who defeated American Sam Querrey 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-0....
02:33 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Valencia: Juan Carlos Ferrero's singles career came to an emotional end when he lost 7-5 6-3 to his Spanish compatriot and close friend Nicolas Almagro in the Valencia Open first round on Tuesday. A former world number one who won the French Open in 2003 but whose career was hampered by injuries, Ferrero announced last month he would retire after playing his home event. Sixth seed Almagro, at 27 Ferrero's...
11:09 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Gijon, Spain: David Ferrer and Nicolas Almagro maintained their near-perfect clay court records in the Davis Cup to give Spain a commanding 2-0 lead over the United States in their semi-final. Ferrer put the hosts ahead in the best-of-five series with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 win over Sam Querrey before Almagro beat John Isner 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to leave the defending champions one point away from their...
11:53 PM, Sep 14, 2012
London: Andy Murray moved a step closer to becoming Britain's first Olympic singles tennis medallist since 1920, reaching the semi-finals with a straight-sets win over Spain's Nicolas Almagro on Thursday. Murray wrapped up the match in less than an hour, winning 6-4, 6-1 for his third win in four matches against the world No. 12. Murray will face either Serbia's Novak Djokovic or France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga for a place in...
06:50 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Bolelli entered the draw after Marat Safin withdrew with a shoulder injury. ...
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