It’s Rafael Nadal vs Nicolas Almagro in the quarterfinals of the 2014 Barcelona Open on April 25.
The pair are set to play at 10:30 a.m. EDT (4:30 p.m. CEST).
The game will be broadcast in over 60 countries (live streaming is available via the ATP World Tour website with a subscription, which costs $9.99 a day or $20.99 a month).
In Spain the game will be broadcast on TVE’s Teledeporte and La1; in Catalonia on TV3’s Esport3; and in the United States on the Tennis Channel.
Bein Sport will broadcast the game in the Middle East and France; ESPN International in Australia and New Zealand; Fox Sports or Taj TV in India and the rest of the subcontinent (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) as well as the Netherlands; DTV y TC Sports in Latin America (excluding Brazil but including the Caribbean islands); BSkyB in the United Kingdom and Ireland; and Supersport in Sub Saharan Africa and the islands adjacent, as well as Albania and Kosovo.
Other individual countries are in alphabetical order. All broadcasters will show all matches unless noted otherwise.
Austria including South Tyrol (ORF)
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia (Sport Klub)
Brazil (Sports+)
Bulgaria (Bulsatcom)
Canada (Rogers Sportsnet; TVA Sports in French)
Czech Republic, Slovakia (TV Fanda, selected matches; Nova Sport)
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden (Canal+ Nordics)
Georgia (GMG Sport)
Germany, Hungary (Sport1)
Greece (OTE TV)
Indonesia (Indovision)
Israel (Sport5)
Italy (SuperTennis)
Japan (Gaora Sports Channel)
Korea (KBS N; semifinals and final only)
Hong Kong (PCCW)
Malaysia, Brunei (Astro Supersport)
Malta (GO)
Philippines (ABS-CBN’s Balls Channel)
Poland (Polsat)
Portugal (Sport TV)
Romania (Doice Sport)
Singapore (Starhub channels)
Switzerland, Canton Ticino, Lichtenstein (SRG, selected matches; Teleclub)
Taiwan (Sportscast Tennis Channel)
Thailand (TrueVisions)
Turkey, Azerbaijan (Sports TV)
Vietnam (SCTV)
Nadal of Spain, ranked No. 1 seed in the tournament, beat Albert Ramos in his first match (7-6, 6-4) before beating Ivan Dodig (6-3, 6-3) in the next match.
Almagro of Spain, ranked No. 6, beat Martin Klizan in his opening match (7-5, 7-6) before beating another countrymen, Fernando Verdasco, in the third round (6-3, 6-3).
The winner of this game will go on to face the winner of unranked Santiago Giraldo--who took out No. 3 Fabio Fognini earlier in the tournament--and No. 10 Philipp Kohlschreiber.
See an Associated Press story below.
Nadal cruises into Barcelona quarterfinals
BARCELONA, Spain—Top-ranked Rafael Nadal looked more like his confident self on the clay in passing Ivan Dodig of Croatia 6-3, 6-3, to reach the Barcelona Open quarterfinals on Thursday.
Nadal was struggling with his game coming into the event and an unconvincing opening victory on Wednesday did little to calm the nerves.
But Nadal looked more assured as he ousted the 37th-ranked Dodig in 83 minutes in the third round.
Nadal moves on to face fellow Spanish player Nicolas Almagro in an early rematch of last season’s final, which Nadal won for his eight title at the tournament in the Catalan capital. Almagro advanced after beating Fernando Verdasco 6-3, 6-3.
Dodig’s attempts to come forward were met with passing shots from Nadal, who finally broke for 3-2 after coming to the net to force Dodig into netting a return.
Dodig broke right back but Nadal had found his rhythm as he forced Dodig into 15 errors in the first set, when he won the last three games for the lead.
Nadal maintained his play to start the second set, when he made fewer errors and seemed to grow in confidence to break Dodig for the fourth time as he sealed the win.
“There’s still some work to do but I definitely took a step forward from yesterday. I move on feeling more assured,” Nadal said. “I needed this game.”
Earlier, fourth-seeded Kei Nishikori beat Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan 6-0, 6-4. Nishikori had been sidelined by a groin injury since beating Roger Federer four weeks ago.
Russian player Teymuraz Gabashvili followed up his win over fifth-ranked David Ferrer with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over another Spaniard, Inigo Cervantes, to reach the quarterfinals.
Ernests Gulbis of Latvia, Marin Cilic of Croatia, and Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany all won to advance.
