Latest headlines concerning the semifinal match vs Andy Murray & the 3RD RR match with Tomas Berdych

• Nadal To Meet Murray In SFs After 3-0 Record In Group A 
• Rafael Nadal beats Tomas Berdych to set up Murray clash  
• Rafael Nadal wins to set up Andy Murray showdown 
• Raging Nadal storms into semi-finals at season-ender 
• Tennis-Berdych says umpire was scared of Nadal
• Rafael Nadal wins at ATP Finals
• Nadal beats Berdych to reach semis at ATP finals
• BARCLAYS ATP WORLD TOUR FINALS
• Murray wants Nadal in London semi-finals

• Rafael Nadal in rant mode before fixing Andy Murray date
  
  
  For a fleeting moment yesterday, Rafael Nadal looked as if he was going to park the game’s most famous backside on his chair and down tools.
  
  There has been much to dine out on in a season of relentless drama, but a sitdown strike by the world No 1 and nine-times grand-slam champion would have been an extraordinary party piece.
  
  Nadal’s third group match against Tomas Berdych was ambling along nicely towards a first-set tie-break with enough clean hitting to satisfy the aficionado, and a few lulls during which it was possible to snatch a nap, when Carlos Bernardes, the umpire, chose to intervene on a baseline call with the Czech leading 6-5, 15-all on the Nadal serve. “Out” he bellowed, a decision that Berdych challenged.
  
  The Hawk-Eye replay determined that the last half-millimetre of fluff had caught the back of the line and Nadal, although pretty sure that his subsequent shot had landed in court, was told that the point was Berdych’s. The Spaniard is a titan when a racket is placed in his hands, but he possesses a sweet nature, unless he is really roused. This really roused him.
  
  He gave a pass to Bernardes, himself a sweet-natured Brazilian, and turned his angst on Tom Barnes, the ATP supervisor. It was easy to imagine that he was waving his arms as if to say he would not play on and definitely gestured towards sitting on his chair.
  
  “The mistake was not mine, it was Carlos’s?” Nadal said. “Then, I am right. He is a great umpire, everyone can make a mistake and if the ball went out, then it is my mistake and not his. This is what I was trying to explain to him.”
  
  Unfortunately for Berdych, a turn of events that need not have happened conspired against him in that Nadal was now burning with inner fire. The Spaniard held serve from 15-30 with a splurge of fiery winners and gave up three points in the ensuing tie-break. In the second set, the Czech won a single game.
  
  And so the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals has one semi-final it can cherish, with Nadal against Andy Murray, a repeat of the Wimbledon semi-final in which the Spaniard was one step quicker and one shot too good. He has been that way at the O2 arena against Andy Roddick, Novak Djokovic and Berdych, a far cry from his tame collection of three straight-sets defeats in this championship one year ago.
  
  Of their 12 previous meetings — Nadal leads 8-4 — two have been indoors, in Madrid in 2007, when the home boy won in straight sets, and the final of the Rotterdam tournament in February last year, when Murray clinched the tournament with a 6-0 last-set victory, although Nadal could barely move because his knees were hurting so much.
  
  That there are no physical ailments to worry either player at this crunch time of the season commends the way they have taken care of their bodies through another strenuous campaign. Nothing, rather than a few butterflies in the stomach, ought to prevent this match being anything other than utterly absorbing.
  
  Murray insists that he was having a bit of fun on Thursday when he suggested that he “doesn’t seem to beat these guys in the big matches” and wonders how the media could have taken his comments at face value. It is because he said them without a trace of sardonic cadence in his voice, so he was taken at his word.
  
  Yesterday he was a good deal more upbeat. “Rafa matured a lot younger than I did,” the British No 1 said. “So the first few times I played against him, he was a great player and had been for a long time. For me it’s taken a little bit longer to get to that level where I can compete with him.”
  
  Nadal says that the circumstances this afternoon are in Murray’s favour. “If you talk to the specialists of tennis, they will say the conditions are a little more easy for him than for me,” he said.
  
  “But we can talk for two days. What matters is what is going to happen tomorrow.”