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Barcelona Open: Rafael Nadal beats Pablo Carreno Busta to reach 12th final

Barcelona Open: Rafael Nadal beats Pablo Carreno Busta to reach 12th final

Nadal has won 65 career matches at the Barcelona Open, losing only four Rafael Nadal beat fellow Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta 6-3 6-2 to reach his 12th Barcelona Open final. Victory sets up a re-match with Greece’s world number five Stefanos Tsitsipas, who came back from two sets down to stun Nadal in February’s Australian Open quarter-finals. World number three Nadal, 34, has won all 11 previous finals and has only ever lost four matches in Barcelona. Tsitsipas, 22, beat Italian Jannik Sinner, 19, 6-3 6-3 to reach the final. Nadal beat Tsitsipas in the 2018 final, losing just...

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