Rafael Nadal

Both players just gave concessions with his service and enjoyed each one breaking ball that did not take advantage.

Rafa Nadal made his debut at the U.S. Open with a hard victory against the Russian player Teymuraz Gabashvili 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-3, after two hours and 54 minutes. From the start of the first set began to sense that the party would not be easy to Nadal. The Russian player was very firm with their service and played very aggressive, and blows very hard levels (19 hits in the first race winners) and the network effect increases, which posed a difficulty in Spanish.

Both players just gave concessions with his service and enjoyed each one breaking ball that did not take advantage, leading to an irremediable to sudden death, which was very aggressive Nadal to earn the part of 7 - 4. The second set was a replica of the first. The Nadal was not the way service counter Russian player, although he had his chance in the twelfth game, which benefited from two set points with a 15-40, but not shaken Gabashvili pulse and forced a new sudden death, which again was for Spanish 7-4.

In the third set, the Russian player did not change one iota his strategy despite his handicap. He was still lashing at the first chance and a high percentage of success. Nadal got the desired break in the seventh game and that was the game 6-3 after the partial sign, after another break of service.

His rival in the second round will be the Uzbek Denis Istomin, ranked number 39 world ranking and came to New York after being a finalist in the New Haven tournament, losing to the Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovski the first final of his career. Both players have already faced this season, the only precedent between the two, in the knockout phase of Queen's, in a match that Nadal needed three sets to win 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4.