2009 MADRID MASTERS

FINAL     

               ROGER FEDERER   v   RAFAEL NADAL                 

6-4, 6-4         

World number two Roger Federer finally ended Rafael Nadal's superb run on clay to win the Madrid Open and take his first title of the year.
The Swiss came through 6-4 6-4 in one hour 26 minutes for only his second win against Nadal in 11 attempts on clay.
Nadal needed four hours to win an epic semi-final against Novak Djokovic on Saturday, and looked flat in the final.

Nadal dismissed the previous match as having any effect on him during the final, however, and gave all credit to Federer.
Federer was clinical throughout until nervously fending off two break points when serving for the match.
It also gives Federer and the other leading men hope going into the French Open, which begins next Sunday, but the Swiss does not expect four-time champion Nadal to be overly worried by a rare defeat.
"I thought I took all the right decisions today and in the end it looked pretty comfortable so it was a perfect win for me," Federer said afterwards.

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