The Swiss won this Sunday by 6-3 and 6-4 against the Spaniard, who has lost his year's three clashes with the Swiss.
Roger Federer crowned Miami Open champion and won his third title this year
Miami (EE.UU.).- Roger Federer ganó hoy por 6-3 y 6-4 su tercer Masters 1.000 de Miami ante un Rafa Nadal que ha perdido este año sus tres enfrentamientos con el suizo, incluida la final del Abierto de Australia.
The Spaniard had breakout options in three of the first set, but failed to close the break, something Federer did in the eighth game to get 5-3, and take the first set.
In the second round, the former world number one and most in the form of the circuit, with his three titles so far this year, took the lead in the seventh and got 5-4 and service, distance he could not recover The Spaniard, who lost his fifth final in Miami (2005, 2008, 2011 and 2014).
Federer and Nadal signed the thirty-seventh of their epic battles in the place where they fought the first of them, in 2004, before an audience that came to the stands knowing that they would see a duel that, with probability, will not be repeated many times more in the Future on the central runway of Crandon Park.
As a curiosity, today was 11 years of the last title of Federer in Miami, beating right in the final to Ivan Ljubicic, his current coach.