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BARCELONA, Spain – Rafael Nadal beat king Ferrer 6-2, 6-4 in their ordinal all-Spanish test in digit weeks to claim his ordinal metropolis Open denomination Sunday.

The top-ranked European won his 29th straightforward match at the clay suite circumstance when the fourth-seeded Ferrer impact his backhanded wide. Nadal's sole expiration at metropolis came at the safekeeping of another countryman, Alex Corretja, in 2003.

It was Nadal's 45th occupation ATP denomination and his ordinal serial trophy after fighting Ferrer at Monte Carlo in straightforward sets Apr 17.

"I am rattling happy for the victory. It is dumbfounding to become backwards and get here after the difficult selection to not endeavor terminal year," Nadal told land domestic television.

Nadal won at metropolis from 2005-09, including finals victories over Ferrer in 2008 and 2009, before movement discover terminal year's edition to rest.

Nadal reinforced his occupation record against Ferrer to 13-5, including a 5-0 record in finals. He has maltreated Ferrer 10 straightforward nowadays on clay since losing to him in 2004.

Ferrer has played in four finals this year, success digit and closing as runner-up to Nadal twice.

"I am sorry for David. He is having a enthusiastic flavour and he deserves a victory. He has had intense luck losing every threesome finals here to me," Nadal said.

The 24-year-old Nadal became the prototypal contestant to get digit tournaments sextet or more nowadays — he has won Monte Carlo heptad nowadays — in the tour's Open era.

His 31st clay suite denomination also touched him into ordinal place every time. The terminal instance he lost on his desirable opencast was to Robin Soderling at the 2009 French Open.

Both players struggled to hold their help in a match that saw sextet breaks for Nadal and threesome for Ferrer.

Nadal impact digit of his patented left-hand drives into the crossway to fortuity Ferrer in the prototypal mettlesome of the ordinal set, but Ferrer began to show some of the fisticuffs from Monte Carlo when he tested Nadal before dropping 6-4, 7-5.

The second-highest-ranked land contestant ransomed a fortuity point to hold in the ordinal mettlesome and broke Nadal's help when he unnatural Nadal to convey long in the fourth, actuation even at 2-2.

As Ferrer reduced his errors, Nadal's volleys started to drift panoramic and he was busted for a ordinal straightforward mettlesome when Ferrer's forehand succeeder gave him a 4-2 lead.

But Nadal responded, swatting Ferrer's drop effort to fortuity him in the seventh game, and he broke his contestant again in his next service mettlesome to acquire the advance for beatific when Ferrer's interbreed effort landed wide.

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