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Reuters 18y

Tennis-Nadal wins Barcelona title to pass Borg's clay streak

By Simon Cambers

BARCELONA, April 30 - Rafael Nadal outmuscled
Tommy Robredo 6-4 6-4 6-0 to win the Barcelona Open on Sunday
for his 47th consecutive claycourt win.

He now moves ahead of Bjorn Borg into second place in the
Open Era list of consecutive wins on the surface.

After two even sets, Nadal cruised through the third to wrap
up victory in two hours, 19 minutes for his third title of the
year and 15th in total.

Nadal is now just six wins behind the record holder,
Argentine Guillermo Vilas, who set his mark in 1977.

The 19-year-old Spaniard's last loss on the surface was to
Russian Igor Andreev in April 2005.

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