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Pablo Carreno Busta vs Rafael Nadal Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Pablo Carreno Busta seasons:20262025202420232022
Rafael Nadal seasons:20242023202220212020
🇪🇸 Pablo Carreno Busta
🇪🇸 Rafael Nadal
#70
834pts
Age: 34y 341d (1991-07-12)
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
(1986-06-03) Age: 40y 15d
Hand: L
Backhand: 2H
0 - 8
Wins: 0.0% - 100.0%
Hard 0–3Clay 0–5Grass 0–0
500 0–3250 0–1Slam 0–2Masters 1000 0–2
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Match Prediction

FavoriteUnderdog
89.3%10.7%
-832+536

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🇪🇸Pablo Carreno Busta and 🇪🇸Rafael Nadal have met 8 times. Rafael Nadal currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 8–0.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇪🇸Pablo Carreno Busta has compiled an overall career record of 290–243 across 533 matches, translating to a win rate of 54.41%. On hard courts his record stands at 164–132 (55.41%), while on clay he holds a 120–97 (55.30%) mark. On grass the numbers read 6–14 (30.00%) . Throughout his career he has won 7 titles (4 hard, 3 clay). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 10–45 (18.18%).

🇪🇸Rafael Nadal, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 1080–228 from 1308 matches (82.57% win rate). His hard-court record is 518–151 (77.43%), on clay he stands at 484–51 (90.47%), and on grass he has gone 76–20 (79.17%) , with a carpet record of 2–6 (25.00%). He has accumulated 92 titles in total (25 hard, 63 clay, 4 grass). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 186–105 (63.92%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On hard courts they have met 3 times, with Rafael Nadal leading 3–0 (100.00%). The clay record between them sits at 5–0 (100.00% for Rafael Nadal) across 5 matches.

Dateâ–¼
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
2021-04-19BarcelonaClaySF3🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (1)13🇪🇸Pablo Carreno Busta (6)6-3 6-23893362.5%77.1%52.4%3/4
2020-11-02Paris MastersHardQF2🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (1)15🇪🇸Pablo Carreno Busta (9)4-6 7-5 6-131337261.9%80.8%62.5%4/5
2020-09-14Rome MastersClayR322🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (2)18🇪🇸Pablo Carreno Busta6-1 6-13732248.7%78.9%80.0%1/1
2020-01-20Australian OpenHardR321🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (1)30🇪🇸Pablo Carreno Busta (27)6-1 6-2 6-45989062.9%87.2%78.3%0/0
2017-05-29Roland GarrosClayQF4🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (4)21🇪🇸Pablo Carreno Busta (20)6-2 2-0 RET5510065.4%47.1%66.7%0/2
2016-02-15Rio de JaneiroClayR325🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (1)66🇪🇸Pablo Carreno Busta6-1 6-43803068.3%58.5%57.9%1/3
2016-01-04DohaHardR325🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (2)67🇪🇸Pablo Carreno Busta6-7(5) 6-3 6-131205173.8%74.6%61.9%1/2
2015-02-16Rio de JaneiroClayR163🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (1)55🇪🇸Pablo Carreno Busta7-5 6-331224167.1%61.2%66.7%2/3

Wins

Pablo Carreno Busta
Rafael Nadal
0–8Overall
0–2Grand Slam
0–2Masters 1000
0–3ATP 500
0–1ATP 250
0–3Hard
0–5Clay

Sets Format

0.0%0
100.0%6
Bo3
0.0%0
100.0%2
Bo5
0.0%0
100.0%5
2 Sets
0.0%0
100.0%3
3 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
Pablo Carreno Busta
Rafael Nadal

Deciding

0.0%0
100.0%2
Decider Set
0.0%0
100.0%1
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Pablo Carreno Busta
Rafael Nadal

Sets

10.5%2
89.5%17
All
0.0%0
100.0%5
Grand Slam
20.0%1
80.0%4
Masters 1000
22.2%2
77.8%7
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
0.0%0
100.0%10
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Pablo Carreno Busta
Rafael Nadal

Games

32.1%52
67.9%110
All
25.7%9
74.3%26
Grand Slam
32.6%14
67.4%29
Masters 1000
36.1%30
63.9%53
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
27.8%22
72.2%57
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Pablo Carreno Busta
Rafael Nadal

Overview

By Surface

Pablo Carreno Busta
Rafael Nadal

By Tournament Level

Pablo Carreno Busta
Rafael Nadal

By Round

Pablo Carreno Busta
Rafael Nadal

By Opponent Ranking

Pablo Carreno BustaRafael Nadal
20%1-4
vs Top 1
54.8%23-19
9.7%3-28
vs Top 5
59.6%93-63
18.2%10-45
vs Top 10
63.9%186-105
29.7%33-78
vs Top 20
70.4%335-141
49%210-219
vs Top 100
81.4%927-212
76.9%80-24
vs +100
90.5%153-16
35.8%76-136
vs Higher
55%71-58
66.7%214-107
vs Lower
85.6%1009-170

Opponent Breakdown

Pablo Carreno BustaRafael Nadal
55.1%129-105
Vs Younger
81.9%470-104
53.8%161-138
Vs Older
83.1%610-124
53.4%238-208
Vs Right-Handed
82%963-211
59.8%52-35
Vs Left-Handed
87.3%117-17
56.1%252-197
Vs 2H Backhand
82.5%765-162
45.2%38-46
Vs 1H Backhand
82.7%315-66
59%157-109
Vs Shorter
86.5%447-70
45.9%85-100
Vs Taller
80.5%498-121

Pressure Situations