The Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal classified itself for the quarterfinals of the match on beaten land of Stuttgart, when surpassing to the German Philip Kohlschreiber. His rival in the following round will be the Argentinean Juan Monaco, eighth favorite, that undid of the Austrian Stefan Koubek.

Number two of the world resolved by a double 6-3 its party before the German in spite of undergoing annoyances in the right knee in the second game of the party that forced to him to request medical aid confirming their condition of unquestionable king of the red clay.

The three times champion of Roland Garros obtained break tempranero in the first Seth although the German neutralized it with his following rest. Nadal tightened and obtained two new breakage that was sufficient to close the sleeve.

In the second sleeve, Nadal returned to put itself ahead in the electronic one to first of change and it only granted a breathing to his rival with 4-1 in the marker although it did not get to grant no point of break to his opponent.

Now, Balearic, the winning one in the 2005 edition, Juan Monaco, eighth head of series will face the Argentinean, that Stefan Koubek by 6-2, 3-6 and 6-3 in a party in which he was very solid with his serve and in that surpassed to the Austrian obtained eight aces.

Monaco continues demonstrating that the beaten Earth is its favorite surface, because this year has gained the matches of Buenos Aires and Poertschach, besides to reach the quarters in Estoril, Auckland, Costa Do Sauipe and Houston.