Almagro Won His First Title of The Year and Maintains The Spanish Rule in Bastad
Nicolas Almagro, fourth favorite, defeated Sweden’s Robin Soderling, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 in Bastad and won their first title of 2010, which underlined by the way, the domain of Spanish tennis in the tournament Swedish.
The tennis Murcia, which took an hour and 56 minutes to win its third victory over the Scandinavian in six games so far have played, is the sixth Spanish in the last ten years that he was victorious in Bastad.
2002 Carlos Moya, Rafael Nadal in 2005, Tommy Robredo in 2006 and 2008 and David Ferrer in 2007, managed by the Swedish title in the competition. With this victory over the defending champion, Almagro accumulates six titles (two in Acapulco and one in Valencia and Stitch do Sauipe). Always on the ground.
The Spanish representatives have returned to prevent Soderling opens its harvest this year. It was a finalist in Barcelona and at Roland Garros. But first, Fernando Verdasco and then Rafael Nadal prevented the tenth successful tennis player in the world out of the track.
This time was Nicolas Almagro, also a finalist in this tournament in 2007 and regained the pulse of the game in the final in September after his rival would balance the match to join the second. However, the Spanish retook his best game and took the win.