In the early morning of March 13, Beijing time, the second round of the ATP1000 Indian Wells Station began to compete, and the No. 4 seed Nadal played in the tournament, and his opponent was the American Player Koda. The two have met once at the 2020 French Open, when Nadal won three straight sets. Today's game Nadal fought back with the Jedi trailing 2-5 in the decider to eventually knock Out Koda 2-1 to continue the winning streak of the season.
Nadal broke his opponent's serve as soon as he started in the first set, and then he saved his serve to take a 2-0 lead. Nadal broke again in the 3rd set and took a 4-0 lead after holding the serve in the 4th set. In the 8th set, Nadal saved the game and won the first set 6-2.
In the second set, Koda love game saved the start, and in the second set he broke Nadal's serve to take a 2-0 lead. Nadal lost again in the 6th set and Koda came to win the set 5-1. In the 7th set, Koda successfully saved the serve and pulled back a set 6-1.
Nadal lost the serve in the 5th set of the decider and Koda took a 4-2 lead. In the 7th set, Koda broke again in Nadal's serve and came to win the set 5-2. In the 8th inning, Nadal withstood the pressure to break and chased the set to 3-5. In the 10th set, Nadal broke the opponent's serve to win the game, and the set was chased to 5-5. In the 11th set, Nadal defused the break point to save the serve, and then Koda successfully saved the serve, and the decider was dragged into the seventh. Nadal scored five consecutive runs after 2-3 in seven sets to win the tiebreaker seven 7-3.
In the end, in a match that took 2 hours and 29 minutes, the No. 4 seed Nadal counterattacked in the decider and finally defeated his little fan Koda 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (3) to reach the 32nd round of the Indian Wells Masters. Nadal has continued his winning streak this season, with his winning streak already lasting 16 games. Also this was Nadal's 399th victory at the Masters, a step away from the 400-win milestone.