The world number one easily beat Finland's Jarkko Nieminen 6-2, a double will be the second round to Frenchman Richard Gasquet
The world number one and six times champion in Monte Carlo, Rafael Nadal, had a peaceful release in the second round after beating Finland's Jarkko Nieminen 6-2, 6-2 in just over an hour mark.
Nadal did not suffer too much before a Nieminen played his sixth match against world number one always with a positive balance for it.
In the second round, Nadal will face Frenchman Richard Gasquet, who on Wednesday won the Spanish Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-2, 6-1.
Nadal and Gasquet remained bitter clashes in the junior stage, but since the Spanish transition to professionalism won in the seven games he has faced so far.
FERRER won the SPANISH DUEL
For its part, the Valencia player David Ferrer, Monaco tournament fourth seed, advanced to the third round after beating another Spanish easily to Feliciano Lopez 6-2 6-0 in just 56 minutes.
Ferrer was the clear dominator of a game in which Feliciano acknowledged the great effort made yesterday to Janko Tipsarevic in the first round. With this victory the individual marker between the two players is now benefiting Lopez 4-6.
Already in the second round, David Ferrer will meet with Canadian Milos Raonic, who knocked in the first round to Frenchman Michel Llodra and second to Latvian Ernest Gulbis.
ROBREDO defeated a VERDASCO UNKNOWN
Tommy Robredo Catalan ruled in favor of Spanish players the match against Fernando Verdasco, seeded sixth, by a clear 6-4 to 6-3 after an hour and a half of play.
In the two races began to dominate the Catalan and then try to recover the Spaniard, but get to have a real chance of winning.
It was the tenth confrontation between them in all areas and now part of Hostalric increases for 6-4, always won when the game was played on clay.
Robredo will face in the quarterfinals with the winner of the match between Italy's Fabio Fognini with Serbian Viktor Troicki, eleventh seeded.
MOUNTAIN succumbed to the SET SIMON
The rapitense Albert Montanes also was eliminated in second round, Feliciano Lopez and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, against Frenchman Gilles Simon 6-3, 6-4 after just over an hour and a half game.
Simon, sixteenth favorite, chose to match their interests asserted in his best tennis in the decisive moments. The two players are equal in ranking, Nos. 23 and 24 for mountains and Simon and I had previously faced three times, always on the ground with balance of 2-1 to the Frenchman.
Simon's next opponent is the winner of the match between Andy Murray, third-seeded Radek Stepanek of the Czech.
Gimeno-Traver FELL TO MONFILS
The player Daniel Gimeno-Traver fell to Frenchman Gael Monfils 7-5, 6-2. The Frenchman, seeded eighth, he claimed his best world ranking, tenth in the sixty-first, which showed at its best percentage of points earned in the first service.
Gimeno-Traver stood up at all times, but ultimately had to yield to the superiority of Monfils, who had already won the only match in which they had faced before, last year's tournament in Stuttgart ground ( Germany).
RIBA INJURY TO BE REMOVED BY CILIC
Pere Riba The Spanish withdrew from the Monte Carlo tennis tournament, due to injury, when contesting the first set of the second round against Croatian Marin Cilic fifteenth favorite, and was losing 5-2.
Riba, who came from the qualifying round and won the first round to Italian Potito Starace, lasted only half an hour on earth Monaco until now prevented him from continuing.
Almagro suffers against Argentine Maximo Gonzalez in the third round but is
WIN BUT SUFFERS ALMAGRO
The Spanish Nicolas Almagro, ninth favorite, struggled to impose the Argentine Maximo Gonzalez, the he defeated by a close 6-7 (6), 7-5, 7-6 (10), making access to the third round of the 1000 Monte Carlo Masters.
Almagro said four match points and three hours to make his first duel between two players.
An intense game, he could opt for either side, where Maximo Gonzalez missed a match point in the decisive third set thirteenth game (8 to 7).
But Almagro, who had previously also been a chance to win winner (7 to 6 and remove), brought out the best in the dying seconds and won the race by 12 to 10 in the final last game of the third set.