2005 Rafael Nadal tennis season

The 2005 Rafael Nadal tennis season is regarded as one of the greatest seasons of all time by a teenager. Nadal won a career-best 11 singles titles,[3] including then-season-record 4 Masters 1000 titles and his maiden Grand Slam title at the French Open on his first attempt, making him the first teenager since Pete Sampras (1990 US Open) to win a major. He finished the year with 79 calendar match wins, the most by any teenager in ATP Tour history,[4] and the world No. 2 ranking. He was awarded the ATP Most Improved Player of the Year award.

Main article: Rafael Nadal
2005 Rafael Nadal tennis season
Full nameRafael Nadal Parera
Country Spain
Calendar prize money$3,874,751 (Singles $3,794,327, Doubles $80,424)[1] [2]
Singles
Season record79–10 (88.8%)
Calendar titles11
Year-end rankingNo. 2
Ranking change from previous yearIncrease 49
Grand Slam & significant results
Australian Open4R
French OpenW
Wimbledon2R
US Open3R
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2006 →

Australian Open

At the 2005 Australian Open, Nadal lost in the fourth round to eventual runner-up Lleyton Hewitt.

Hard court

Nadal reached the final of the 2005 Miami Masters, and despite being two points from a straight-sets victory, he was defeated in five sets by Roger Federer.

Clay court

Nadal dominated the 2005 clay court season. He won 24 consecutive singles matches, which broke Andre Agassi's Open Era record of consecutive match wins for a male teenager.[5] Nadal won the Torneo Conde de Godó in Barcelona and beat 2004 French Open runner-up Guillermo Coria in the finals of the 2005 Monte Carlo Masters and the 2005 Rome Masters. During the Rome quarterfinals against Radek Štěpánek, Nadal hit what is considered by many as the greatest shot of his career, a no-look, running passing shot near the net.[6] These victories raised his ranking to world No. 5[7] and made him one of the favorites at his career-first French Open. On his 19th birthday, Nadal defeated Federer in the 2005 French Open semifinals,[8] as one of only four players who defeated the world No. 1 that year (along with Marat Safin, Richard Gasquet, and David Nalbandian). Two days later, he defeated Mariano Puerta in the final, becoming the second male player after Mats Wilander to win the French Open on his first attempt. He also became the first male teenager to win a Grand Slam singles title since Pete Sampras won the 1990 US Open at age 19. Winning the French Open improved Nadal's ranking to world No. 3.[7]

Grass court

Three days after his victory in Paris, Nadal's 24-match winning streak was snapped in the first round of the grass court Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany, where he lost to the German Alexander Waske.[9] He then lost in the second round of 2005 Wimbledon to Gilles Müller of Luxembourg.

Summer hard court

Immediately after Wimbledon, Nadal won 16 consecutive matches and three consecutive tournaments, bringing his ranking to world No. 2 on 25 July 2005. Nadal started his North American summer hard-court season by defeating Agassi in the final of the 2005 Canada Masters, but lost in the first round of the 2005 Cincinnati Masters. Nadal was seeded second at the 2005 US Open, where he was upset in the third round by world No. 49 James Blake in four sets.

In September, he defeated Coria in the final of the China Open in Beijing and won both of his Davis Cup matches against Italy. In October, he won his fourth ATP Masters Series title of the year, defeating Ivan Ljubičić in the final of the 2005 Madrid Masters. He then suffered a foot injury that prevented him from competing in the year-ending Tennis Masters Cup.[10]

Both Nadal and Federer won eleven singles titles and four ATP Masters Series titles in 2005. Nadal broke Mats Wilander's previous teenage record of nine in 1983.[11] Eight of Nadal's titles were on clay, and the remainder were on hard courts. Nadal won 79 matches, second only to Federer's 81.

Singles Matches
Tournament Match Round Opponent Rank Result Score
Qatar Open
Doha, Qatar
ATP World Tour 250
Hard, outdoor
3–9 January 2005		 1 / 75 1R Russia Mikhail Youzhny 16
Win
 6–3, 7–6(7–3)
2 / 76 2R Spain Fernando Verdasco 36
Win
 6–2, 6–4
3 / 77 QF Croatia Ivan Ljubičić 22
Loss
 2–6, 7–6(3–7), 3–6
Heineken Open
Auckland, New Zealand
ATP World Tour 250
Hard, outdoor
10–16 January 2005		 4 / 78 1R Slovakia Dominik Hrbatý 20
Loss
 3–6 RET
Australian Open
Melbourne, Australia
Grand Slam
Hard, outdoor
17–30 January 2005		 5 / 79 1R France Julien Benneteau 65
Win
 6–0, 6–4, 6–2
6 / 80 2R Russia Mikhail Youzhny 15
Win
 6–1, 4–6, 4–6, 7–5, 6–3
7 / 81 3R United States Bobby Reynolds 283
Win
 6–1, 6–1, 6–3
8 / 82 4R Australia Lleyton Hewitt 3
Loss
 5–7, 6–3, 6–1, 6–7(3–7), 2–6
ATP Buenos Aires
Buenos aires, Argentina
ATP World Tour 250
Clay, outdoor
7–13 February 2005		 9 / 83 1R Argentina Agustín Calleri 61
Win
 7–6(7–2), 6–3
10 / 84 2R Italy Potito Starace 66
Win
 6–1, 6–3
11 / 85 QF Argentina Gastón Gaudio 8
Loss
 6–0, 0–6, 1–6
Brasil Open
São Paulo, Brazil
ATP World Tour 250
Clay, outdoor
15–20 February 2005		 12 / 86 1R Argentina José Acasuso 55
Win
 7–6(7–1), 6–3
13 / 87 2R Spain Álex Calatrava 86
Win
 6–3, 6–3
14 / 88 QF Argentina Agustín Calleri 60
Win
 6–2, 6–7(5–7), 6–4
15 / 89 SF Brazil Ricardo Mello 56
Win
 2–6, 6–2, 6–4
16 / 90 W Spain Alberto Martín 61
Win (1)
 6–0, 6–7(2–7), 6–1
Abierto Mexicano Telcel
Acapulco, Mexico
ATP World Tour 500
Clay, outdoor
21–27 February 2005		 17 / 91 1R Spain Álex Calatrava 81
Win
 6–4, 6–4
18 / 92 2R Spain Santiago Ventura 77
Win
 7–6, 6–2
19 / 93 QF Argentina Guillermo Cañas 12
Win
 7–5, 6–3
20 / 94 SF Argentina Mariano Puerta 74
Win
 6–4, 6–1
21 / 95 W Spain Albert Montañés 95
Win (2)
 6–1, 6–0
Miami Open
Key Biscayne, United States
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Hard, outdoor
21 March – 3 April 2005		 – 1R Bye
22 / 96 2R Germany Rainer Schüttler 39
Win
 6–4, 7–6(7–5)
23 / 97 3R Spain Fernando Verdasco 45
Win
 6–2, 6–2
24 / 98 4R Croatia Ivan Ljubičić 14
Win
 6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–3
25 / 99 QF Sweden Thomas Johansson 27
Win
 6–2, 6–4
26 / 100 SF Spain David Ferrer 44
Win
 6–4, 6–3
27 / 101 F Switzerland Roger Federer 1
Loss (1)
 6–2, 7–6(7–4), 6–7(5–7), 3–6, 1–6
Open de Tenis Comunidad Valenciana
Valencia, Spain
ATP World Tour 250
Clay, outdoor
4–10 April 2005		 28 / 102 1R Spain Juan Carlos Ferrero 68
Win
 6–2, 6–1
29 / 103 2R Spain Guillermo García López 80
Win
 6–1, 6–4
30 / 104 QF Russia Igor Andreev 47
Loss
 5–7, 2–6
Monte Carlo Masters
Monte Carlo, Monaco
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Clay, outdoor
11–17 April 2005		 31 / 105 1R France Gaël Monfils 106
Win
 6–3, 6–2
32 / 106 2R Belgium Xavier Malisse 38
Win
 6–0, 6–3
33 / 107 3R Belgium Olivier Rochus 42
Win
 6–1, 6–2
34 / 108 QF Argentina Gastón Gaudio 6
Win
 6–3, 6–0
35 / 109 SF France Richard Gasquet 101
Win
 6–7(6–8), 6–4, 6–3
36 / 110 W Argentina Guillermo Coria 9
Win (3)
 6–3, 6–1, 0–6, 7–5
Torneo Godo
Barcelona, Spain
ATP World Tour 500
Clay, outdoor
18–24 April 2005		 – 1R Bye
37 / 111 2R Luxembourg Gilles Müller 64
Win
 6–0, 6–2
38 / 112 3R Slovenia Dominik Hrbatý 25
Win
 6–1, 6–2
39 / 113 QF Argentina Agustín Calleri 99
Win
 6–2, 3–0 RET
40 / 114 SF Czech Republic Radek Štěpánek 22
Win
 7–5, 6–2
41 / 115 W Spain Juan Carlos Ferrero 58
Win (4)
 6–1, 7–6(7–4), 6–3
Internazionali BNL d'Italia
Rome, Italy
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Clay, outdoor
2–8 May 2005		 42 / 116 1R Russia Mikhail Youzhny 26
Win
 6–0, 6–2
43 / 117 2R Romania Victor Hănescu 85
Win
 6–1, 6–1
44 / 118 3R Argentina Guillermo Cañas 13
Win
 6–3, 6–1
45 / 119 QF Czech Republic Radek Štěpánek 17
Win
 5–7, 6–1, 6–1
46 / 120 SF Spain David Ferrer 25
Win
 4–6, 6–4, 7–5
47 / 121 W Argentina Guillermo Coria 11
Win (5)
6–4, 3–6, 6–3, 4–6, 7–6(8–6)
French Open
Paris, France
Grand Slam
Clay, outdoor
23 May – 5 June 2005		 48 / 122 1R Germany Lars Burgsmüller 96
Win
 6–1, 7–6(7–4), 6–1
49 / 123 2R Belgium Xavier Malisse 46
Win
 6–2, 6–2, 6–4
50 / 124 3R France Richard Gasquet 31
Win
 6–4, 6–3, 6–2
51 / 125 4R France Sébastien Grosjean 24
Win
 6–4, 3–6, 6–0, 6–3
52 / 126 QF Spain David Ferrer 21
Win
 7–5, 6–2, 6–0
53 / 127 SF Switzerland Roger Federer 1
Win
 6–3, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3
54 / 128 W Argentina Mariano Puerta 37
Win (6)
 6–7(6–8), 6–3, 6–1, 7–5
Gerry Weber Open
Halle, Germany
ATP World Tour 250
Grass, outdoor
6–12 June 2005		 55 / 129 1R Germany Alexander Waske 147
Loss
6–4, 5–7, 3–6
The Championships, Wimbledon
Wimbledon, United Kingdom
Grand Slam
Grass, outdoor
20 June – 3 July 2005		 56 / 130 1R United States Vincent Spadea 39
Win
 6–4, 6–3, 6–2
57 / 131 2R Luxembourg Gilles Müller 69
Loss
 4–6, 6–4, 3–6, 4–6
Swedish Open
Båstad, Sweden
ATP World Tour 250
Clay, outdoor
4–7 July 2005		 58 / 132 1R Argentina Juan Mónaco 66
Win
 6–1, 6–1
59 / 133 2R Spain Alberto Martín 50
Win
 6–2, 6–4
60 / 134 QF Spain Juan Carlos Ferrero 31
Win
 6–3, 6–3
61 / 135 SF Spain Tommy Robredo 20
Win
 6–3, 6–3
62 / 136 W Czech Republic Tomáš Berdych 20
Win (7)
 2–6, 6–2, 6–4
Stuttgart Open
Stuttgart, Germany
ATP World Tour 500
Clay, outdoor
18–24 July 2005		 – 1R Bye
63 / 137 2R United States Hugo Armando 167
Win
 6–1, 6–2
64 / 138 3R Spain Fernando Verdasco 58
Win
 6–3, 6–2
65 / 139 QF Czech Republic Tomáš Zíb 57
Win
 4–6, 6–4, 6–3
66 / 140 SF Finland Jarkko Nieminen 66
Win
 6–2, 7–5
67 / 141 W Argentina Gastón Gaudio 13
Win (8)
 6–3, 6–3, 6–4
Rogers Cup
Montreal, Canada
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Hard, outdoor
8–14 August 2005		 68 / 142 1R Spain Carlos Moyá 32
Win
 6–3, 6–7, 6–3
69 / 143 2R Brazil Ricardo Mello 56
Win
 6–1, 6–2
70 / 144 3R France Sébastien Grosjean 34
Win
 6–4, 6–4
71 / 145 QF Argentina Mariano Puerta 11
Win
 6–3, 6–1
72 / 146 SF France Paul-Henri Mathieu 63
Win
 6–4, 7–5
73 / 147 W United States Andre Agassi 7
Win (9)
 6–3, 4–6, 6–2
Cincinnati Masters
Ohio, United States
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Hard, outdoor
15–21 August 2005		 74 / 148 1R Czech Republic Tomáš Berdych 36
Loss
 7–6(7–4), 2–6, 6–7(3–7)
US Open
Melbourne, Australia
Grand Slam
Hard, outdoor
29 August – 11 September 2005		 75 / 149 1R United States Bobby Reynolds 132
Win
 6–3, 6–3, 6–4
76 / 150 2R United States Scoville Jenkins 352
Win
 6–4, 7–5, 6–4
77 / 151 3R United States James Blake 49
Loss
 4–6, 6–4, 3–6, 1–6
China Open
Beijing, China
ATP World Tour 250
Hard, outdoor
12–18 September 2005		 78 / 152 1R Taiwan Jimmy Wang 100
Win
 6–2, 6–4
79 / 153 2R United States Justin Gimelstob 95
Win
 5–7, 6–4, 6–4
80 / 154 QF Netherlands Peter Wessels 115
Win
 7–6(7–3), 6–2
81 / 155 SF Spain Juan Carlos Ferrero 23
Win
 6–4, 6–4
82 / 156 W Argentina Guillermo Coria 8
Win (10)
 5–7, 6–1, 6–2
Davis Cup, ITA v/s ESP World Group Play Offs
Italy
Davis Cup
Clay, outdoor
19–25 September 2005		 83 / 157 RR Italy Daniele Bracciali 69
Win
 6–3, 6–2, 6–1
84 / 158 RR Italy Andreas Seppi 78
Win
 6–1, 6–2, 5–7, 6–4
Madrid Open
Madrid, Spain
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Hard, indoor
17–23 October 2005		 – 1R Bye
85 / 159 2R Romania Victor Hănescu 42
Win
 7–6(7–5), 6–3
86 / 160 3R Spain Tommy Robredo 17
Win
 6–2, 6–4
87 / 161 QF Czech Republic Radek Štěpánek 14
Win
 7–6(11–9), 6–4
88 / 162 SF United States Robby Ginepri 21
Win
 7–5, 7–6(7–1)
89 / 163 W Croatia Ivan Ljubičić 7
Win (11)
 3–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6(7–3)

See also

References
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