Rafael Nadal romped to his tenth Barcelona Open title on Sunday as he sweptwing aside Austria's priest Thiem 6-4, 6-1 for a 51st clay-court crown. The Spaniard has created the right begin to the clay-court season and can aim for {a 10th|a tenth} French Open next month when conjointly claiming his 10th title at the Monte Carlo Masters last week. Nadal won in Barcelona between 2005-2009, 2011-13 and currently within the last 2 years.
The 14-time grand slam champion sounds like the person to hammer in Paris as on the court new baptized in his name he didn't drop a collection all week.
Thiem had aghast world number one Andy Murray in Saturday's semi-finals and showed some early resistance.
The world number 9 even had his solely break purpose of the match within the 1st game.
But Nadal, returning to high kind at age thirty, upped his intensity at the critical moment and took the set with the only break within the tenth game.
The second set was a procession as Thiem's frustration at his inability to interrupt through Nadal's defences saw him systematically hearth long.
Thiem command off 3 break points in his gap service game, however was low-powered to prevent Nadal thenceforth as he won the last 5 games to seal success in only over ninety minutes on court.