Djokovic beats Nadal to win sixth China Open singles title

Novak Djokovic continued his dominant 2015 season with an emphatic straight-sets victory over Rafael Nadal in the China Open final.

The Serbian won the match in straight sets 6-2, 6-2 in one and half hour despite the huge billing the final match had received into the clash.

Fognini had beaten Nadal three times this year, including in the third round of the U.S. Open last month.

“I looked at my coach and I told him, ‘Yeah, well, maybe it’s going to be the first day when I’m going to get double bagel”, Bacsinszky said about the possibility of losing 6-0, 6-0.

Muguruza turned 22 a few days ago and became the youngest player to win a title at this level or higher since a 21-year-old Petra Kvitova captured the WTA Finals crown in Istanbul in 2011.

The Spaniard’s spiking nerve and Djokovic’s slashing depth denied it. The 14-time Grand Slam champion has discussed his flagging confidence this season; it’s sometimes most glaring in his forehand misses.

Anticipating the reply, Novak Djokovic snapped off a smash ending an electric point with an authoritative answer.

Djokovic will start as undoubted favorite to round off his year by defending that title, having won three of the four slams and eight tournaments to date in compiling a 68-5 record in 2015. “Even if I lost 6-2, 6-2, sounds unusual, but that’s my real feeling”.

Hampered by an apparent leg ailment, Nadal would call for the trainer midway through the third game of the second set.

After making the semifinal here, that was his first hard court semifinal since Miami in 2014. Many thought John Isner would push Djokovic because of his big serve and ability to play him close in plenty of matches.

Nadal had break points in the sixth game but Djokovic held firm, and the Serb gained his second break in the seventh game when his Spanish opponent volleyed into the net with the court at his mercy.

Yet, he trailed by a break from the very first game.

Nadal had chances to break back, including two points in game seven, but was himself broken again to concede the set. “But I really believe if I continue with the same quality of practices, the same health of my body, I really hope and I believe that I can start the next year with (more) energy and I believe another level”.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga also took three sets to subdue Tommy Robredo 6-7 (5/7), 6-2, 6-2, while Australia’s Nick Krygios reached the second round with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer.