DEFEAT TO OF THE COLT IN QUEEN´S
LONDON. - The Spanish Rafael Nadal demonstrated a solvent trasvase of the clay to the grass and maintained by an effective service he beat to the Argentinean Juan Martin of the Colt (6-4 and 6-4) and advanced to the eighth of end of the match of Queens, at where also the Serb Novak Djokovic and the Chilean arrived Fernando González but not the Lleyton Australian Hewitt.
One hour on the grass of the club of tennis of Queens in the doubles in company of also the Spanish Feliciano Lopez was enough to Nadal to find arrangement in a floor so different from the one from Roland Garros.
In its opening in the individual picture its commitment ventilated in little more than one hour and it did not give option to Martin of the Colt to break his service.
?The change of the clay to the grass is a great change. But I feel well. The end of the past year in Wimbledon supposed an enormous confidence for me and I feel well in this surface?, said Nadal after the encounter.
The Spanish tennis player broke the serve of the Argentinean in the ninth game of the first partisan and the first Seth scored. Later, to the first occasion, he broke in second and he sentenced the shock. Nevertheless, Of the Colt not even he had occasion to break the one of Nadal, always firm with the service.
?Of the Colt he began serving well but later he lowered a little his effectiveness and I could reduce better. He was calm because with my serve he gained with facility the games. And this is very important, mainly in grass?, recognized Nadal, finalist the past year in Wimbledon, where it lost with the Swiss Roger Federer.
Number two of the world will now face bielorruso Max Mirnyi, who beat to the French Gael Monfils in three sets (6-7 (2), 6-2 and 7-5).
Its tennis under protection of a wonderful service, dista much of the solidity of the one of Nadal, that already won to him in the 2004, in the match of Dubai, in fast track.
Djokovic advances; Hewitt was
Just as Nadal, the Serb Novak Djokovic, fourth favorite, that lost with the Balearic one in the semifinals of Paris, he reached the eighth in Queens. He gained with hardships to the American Robert Kendrick (the USA), 3-6, 6-3 and 6-2. Now one will face the French Arnaud Clément, fourteenth, who surpassed to the Australian Chris Guccione (6-4 and 6-4).
The Chilean Fernando González, third head of series, surpassed to the Serb Janko Tipsarevic (7-6 (7), 4-6 and 7-6 (7)) in a full duel of alternatives. Robby Ginepri will play now against the American, fifteenth, who surpassed the French Florent Serra (6-4 and 7-6 (3)).
, Nevertheless most showy of the day it was the elimination, in his first party, of the Lleyton Australian Hewitt, sixth head of series and specialist in turf. He fell before a stranger. The French of twenty-two years Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 121 of the world, to which two were enough to him sets (7-6 (6) and 7-6 (2)).
The tennis player of Adelaida, winner in four occasions of Queens and one of Wimbledon, could not with a tennis player who appears with dropper in matches ATP.
The Gaul will now be moderate the Croatian Marin Cilic, twig of the Colombian Alexander Fault (6-3 and 6-4). In the rest of encounter, the French Paul Henry Mathieu, gained to his compatriot Michael Llodra (7-6 (4) and retired); the Briton Alex Bogdanovic to its countryman Jamie Baker (4-6, 7-6 (4) and 6-3) and the Gaul Nicholas Mahut to the Swedish Jonas Bjorkman, eleventh favorite (6-3, 6-7 (2) and 6-3). The Croatian Ivo Karlovic, on the other hand, surpassed to the American Alex Kuznetsov (2-6, 6-2 and 7-6 (2).