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Nadal cruises to Toronto Masters victory

28/07/2008

World number two Rafael Nadal has won the Toronto Masters title after a comfortable 6-3 6-2 victory over Nicolas Kiefer in the final.

The Spaniard, who has now won 29 consecutive matches on the ATP Tour, was at his imperious best as he easily dispatched Kiefer in a little over an hour.

The unseeded German, 31, was playing in his first final in the Masters Series.

But it was the in-form 22-year-old - who became the third-youngest player ever, behind Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg, to reach 30 career tournament titles - that looked the more comfortable on the big stage.

Nadal broke serve for the first time at 3-2 in the first and went on to claim the set when he broke Kiefer again at 5-3 up.

The German veteran put up a brief resistance in the second set, but Nadal's awesome strength and shot-making ability was too much as he reeled off four straight games from 2-2 to claim the victory.