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Rafa Jódar Reveals Football Past After Rome Victory - Tennis Tonic - News, Predictions, H2H, Live Scores, Stats

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Rafa Jódar continued his rise on the ATP Tour with a straight-sets win over Nuno Borges in Rome. The Spaniard, now ranked at a career-high 34, saved seven of eight break points and showed composure in key moments. “Nuno played real well from the first point, so I knew I had to give my best to get the first win here in Rome,” Jódar said after the match. Adjusting to conditions The transition from Madrid’s altitude to Rome’s heavier clay required …

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Rafa Jódar has shone this Friday in his debut in the Masters 1,000 of Rome after imposing himself on Nuno Borges for 7-6(4) and 6-4. However, during the meeting, he had a heated discussion with the chair judge in the decisive game. The Spanish tennis player complained to the chair judge at the time that one of his services had touched the network, at a point that ended on the side of his rival, when he took out to close his pass to the third rou…

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Rafa Jódar debuts in the Masters 1,000 of Rome this Friday before Portuguese Nuno Borges, in what supposes the start of his participation in the tournament of the Italian capital after accessing as serial head. The 19-year-old from Madrid goes to the Italian capital after signing in Madrid his first quarter finals in a Masters 1.000, where only the number one in the world, the Italian Jannik Sinner, managed to slow his progression. The young man…

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It has been making a hole Rafa Jódar in the heart of the fans with its few but tremendous steps towards the elite. After these four months of slow growth, it is already a star. So it has been received in Rome, it fills its grada. Nuno Borges knew it, who already knows it, like the rest of the circuit. And he is no longer the Spaniard a novice of which one does not know what to expect, the Portuguese already knows him well, and fears him, that is…

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Rafa Jódar, 19 years old, walking through Madrid and having to stop every ten meters because someone asks for a photo. An ad with his face occupies a whole façade of Gran Vía. The...

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R. Jódar b. N. Borges 7-6(4) 6-4There are games that more than others acquire meaning. Sometimes it depends on when you win them (a final certainly has a different weight from a second round), but others also from how you win them. And even if for Rafa Jódar this was only the debut in Rome as if it were trivial to debut in a Masters 1000 series lead-up it is the success against Nuno Borges worth much more than the 7-6(4) 6-4 final. The Spanish …

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sport.es broke the news on Friday, May 8, 2026.
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