Rafa Nadal is already in the second round of Australia Open after the withdrawal of Mark Daniel. Brazil lost 6-0 the first set and fell 5-0 in the second, when he retired.
Rafael Nadal advanced to the second round of Australian Open (where he will play against American Ryan Sweeting, today's Spanish hangman Gimeno Traver, who won 6-4, 6-4, 6-1) after a walk of 47 minutes before Brazilian Marcos Daniel, not even the length of a training routine. With 6-0, 5-0 to Nadal, Daniel retired and ended his 'Via Crucis' particular.
The Brazilian twice required medical attention and spent more than half a game (?) With a bulky bandage on his left knee. In the second set 3-0, Daniel, who was limping constantly, he asked to remove the dressing. Two games later, he went to shake hands with Nadal. "It feels good winning this way, but when someone is ill and was Daniel, the best thing for him is to leave and go to recover soon, "Nadal said, interviewed by Jim Courier in the same track in the Rod Laver Arena." From the beginning, he saw Daniel was too nervous, "Toni Nadal felt , Rafa's uncle and coach. The Brazilian had suffered discomfort in training on Monday, but "not one hundred percent maybe I would have been enough to win," revealed Daniel.
Beneath the hum of the big birds known as the Australian 'Sparrows' (actually, chingolos oceanic), Nadal won 49 of the 61 points played, with 25 winners, and none of Daniel. Rafa `served four aces ... and three double faults. Serving in the second game of the second set, but rather out of step with the continuing problems of Daniel, Nadal had to cancel four balls of `break ', mostly good service to the twisting one-handed backhand Daniel.
At that point, the Brazilian and was only slightly more the desire to win a game. Nor did it. Finally, the 'sparrows' returned to their dens of neighboring Melbourne Cricket Ground (go to the Arena to peck food) ... Nadal and landed on his second-round comfortable nest.