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The world number two fell to the Swiss in straight sets (6-3 and 6-0) in a match where the winner of last year´s Masters gave no option to Spanish in no time.

Roger Federer won with authority today to Spanish Rafael Nadal, world number two in the Masters Cup to be played in London, 6-3, 6-0 in one hour exactly.

While Nadal did not fail to be drawn from the manga blows bright until the end of the meeting, the Spaniard, who received a resounding 6-0 in the second set, only real resistance opposed to number four in the first twenty minutes.

In the forty remaining option Federer gave Nadal, who in last Sunday´s match against Mardy Fish suffered stomach problems, and ended up insane today, chasing balls around the track that sent the Swiss.

Despite the overwhelming dominance of the winner of the Masters last year, in the crash was no shortage of endless exchanges of balls tight to the line, the duels in the network and ensuring any master strokes among those who have grabbed the top two spots in the ATP rankings for almost a decade.

The statistics are met tonight, and Nadal again fell to Federer in indoor track, a scenario in which the Spaniard has never been able to surpass his rival.

Federer was tuned from the first minute, although it opened the game with a double fault, the only one to commit tonight, and used his service to force Nadal to run side to side of the track.

The Swiss suffered to rest, but when he did shoot back the Majorcan forcing long rallies in which poisoned the ball and waited patiently Nadal error.

Everything to presage a duel which is defined in little details, like which led to the first imbalance: Federer broke the Spaniard after the service of an endless exchange of blows to the network set that ended when one of the balls down a few millimeters Nadal beyond the line.

The script for the night, however, took a turn with the advantage of Federer, who came up and was just one step to be done with a breaking ball and set with the score 5-2.

The number two, which fell last year in the final of this tournament against the Swiss momentarily resisted the onslaught, but only during a game might contain more than five times winner of the Masters Cup, which is partially scored by 6 -3.

Nadal downed defending forces to serve in the first game of the second set but Federer showed intractable from the bottom of the track and from the network, and took an advantage that was beginning to seem unreasonable that Nadal could compose himself.

Far from being reunited with their usual game, Spanish disappeared from the track in the final moments of the match, in which the Swiss seemed to come easily to all the balls while Nadal had to spend their shots over the net.

Despite the defeat, the London tournament format allows the Mallorcan stay alive in the competition, and number two will play Thursday against Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to try to get into the semifinals of the Masters Cup, before travel to Seville in early December to play the Davis Cup final against Argentina.

Spanish tennis players Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco were framed in heavy groups of the World Tour Final, the traditional Masters Cup of the season finale, and will be played at the O2 in London from Sunday

Spanish tennis players Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco were framed in heavy groups of the World Tour Final, the traditional Masters Cup of the season finale, and will be played at the O2 in London since Sunday.

Thus, the Spaniard will have to earn one of two Group B tickets to the semifinals to Novak Djokovic, Russian Nikolay Davydenko and Swede Robin Soderling reached the last minute injury Andy Roddick.

For its part, neither will the Madrid easy to be paired in Group A, with the Swiss world number one, Roger Federer, the Scot, and host, Andy Murray and Juan Martin Del Potro.

Thus, Nadal, who has not achieved its best line of tennis, will, in theory and ranking as the largest player in the way today as the circuit is Nole, who comes to win in Beijing, Basel and Paris, this one Category Masters 1000, three indoor tournaments, surface appointment of teachers, provided that the Balkan well defended by its success in 2008 in Shanghai.

Moreover, the world number two, who never went to the semifinals in this tournament and that main objective is the Davis Cup final against the Czech Republic in early December, will have a certain morbid fascination with crossing Soderling, also in good shape and executioner at Roland Garros, with which it seems that it has a good relationship was tracks.

Finally, the last obstacle to the four-time champion at Roland Garros, also chooses to end up as world number one, for what they need above all to reach the final, will be the Russian Davydenko, a player as uncomfortable as irregular and already defeated him in the final match at the Shanghai Masters 1000.

Verdasco, another of the rookies with Soderling, will have nothing simpler your ticket for the semifinals. The Madrid, in Group A and also beset by physical problems, not just shine on the indoor track and will play against more experienced rivals in this area as Federer or Murray, not to mention the Open champion States U.S., Del Potro.

The semifinalist in Australia has, however, thrilled at this appointment and will not be intimidated either by the Swiss, who wants to ensure the global throne, 2009, and by the Scot, who won in the semifinals of the Valencia Open 500, or by the Argentine, having shown a combative player in indoor where has this year's final in Kuala Lumpur (loss to Davydenko) and the aforementioned semis in the capital del Turia, although it was not right or in Shanghai or Paris.

LONDON MASTERS CUP GROUP A Roger Federer (Swi) Andy Murray (GBR) Juan Martin del Potro (ARG) Fernando Verdasco (ESP) GROUP B Rafael Nadal (ESP) Novak Djokovic (SER) Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) Robin Soderling (SWE) * The first two semifinals access