Rafael Nadal vs Alexander Zverev: Every ATP Clay Meeting So Far!

You just barely heard the drop shot from Nadal. Relentless from Zverev. He's getting ready to talk about the defence yet again from Nadal. There's that drop shot again. He's not lost a point with that attack. Teams up, Trumps again. They won the first set yesterday, 6-0. Drops just the one game in the opening set today. Rafa Nadal and his father. He's got him again. He's just winning every type of point right now. Zverev trying something. The master teaching the young apprentice a clay-court lesson. A vintage Nadal performance. Good tennis IQ. Pounces. Too strong. Certainly too good. Like the skies. Will indeed take a leave of absence, folks. Covers are coming out. What a change-up. In the second, not much better. In the most of it, he's used his long levers. It's Zverev that moves a break in front. Nadal far from his best so far. The last 11 points for Alexander Zverev. Well, that's some shot. It's something else. What a response. Some rich hitting from Alexander Zverev. A return just too short. Alexander Zverev records a third successive victory over Rafael Nadal. The champion of 2018 overcomes an out-of-sorts Spaniard today. Oh, clever. He's flicking that one in the opposite direction. He's missed another. And it's a double break. Gonna break your serve. Oh, how about that? Best of the match so far. Oh, I think he made it, but this doesn't look good. Oh, what a fantastic effort to somehow find his way through that dramatic ninth game. That's big. No, it's long. The point goes Nadal's way. Nadal strikes. Brutal forehands. Oh, that's a heck of a dig from Nadal. It's victory for Nadal. Once more, he is a semi-finalist in this city for the 12th time in his career.