2019 Italian Open Men's Singles SF's - Rafael Nadal avenges loss to Stefanos Tsitsipas to reach Italian Open final Saturday May 18,2019

World No 2 Rafael Nadal stormed into his first final of 2019 clay-court season after easing past Greek tennis sensation Stefanos Tsitsipas in the semi-final of the Italian Open on Saturday May 18,2019

The Spaniard tennis maestro took revenge of his semi-final defeat to Tsitsipas at the Madrid Open last week with a comfortable 6-3, 6-4 win over the Greek in a last-four clash of the men's singles event that lasted one hour and 42 minutes. 

Reflecting on his win, Nadal said that he played a solid match against a solid player and seal an important victory. 

With the win, Nadal has stormed into his 50th ATP Masters 1000 final and improved his Head-to-Head rivalry against Tsitsipas to 4-1. 

Nadal will now face the winner of other semi-final clash between world number one Novak Djokovic and Argentina star Diego Schwartzman on Saturday.