The Balearic was intermittent, but to make the most of their choices to the rest • The rain threatens to suspend the game in the third set "After playing two days in a row, Nadal will rest on Sunday before Thomaz Bellucci measured on Monday
Rafa Nadal qualified for the knockout round of Roland Garros in 2010 after three races to break Lleyton Hewitt. A victory that allows the Balearic match the round that hit last year, so all what I do from now on will be added in view of the world rankings.
Lleyton Hewitt was a good test for Rafa Nadal following carburizing machinery in the clay of Paris. The tennis was so intermittent Balearic time, but he knew to be brilliant at times the most requested game. The end result, a 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 after one hour and fifty-three minutes of play in a clash played in a Philippe Chatrier that surrendered to the superiority of the Balearic Islands.
The party did not start well for Nadal, losing not only remove the draw for the opening game but with your service. The wind was blowing sideways in the Roland Garros Central uncomfortable to both players, who quickly put in track his best tennis. Rafa's reaction was blunt. Won four straight games. The Spaniard took a walk on the right, with that took the initiative of the points, hitting the track and put leaving to the archive the odd banana-shoyo 'made in Nadal. " Despite being lower in the bright, Hewitt did not throw in the towel and stood firm on the back of the court. However, his reaction was late, because in 43 minutes the first set up the box of Manacor tennis. The second set began with an early break of Nadal, who took the lead before the first rest in the chair. Seeing that from the bottom of the track just hurt the Balearic jumped Hewitt to the net fishing. And caught a contrabreak that not only got into the game, but won him in confidence. It was the Australian who dominated the "timming" party at the time, keeping Nadal beyond the line. The Spaniard was very erratic at times, with more unforced errors to hit winners. But it was the very 'Aussie' who left the party at times and when that happens against the best clay court player in history, you end up paying. In the ninth game Hewitt committed four errors as glaring as incomprehensible to the right that gave the break to Nadal, who missed the opportunity to close the second act in 48 minutes.
The third set could break from the start, Nadal got a break in the opening game, again because more errors than successes own rival. But he could / knew how to consolidate the break and, as happened in the previous set, then gave their service. Things did not look good. To make matters worse, the chair umpire, Carlos Ramos Portuguese, pointing to a 'warning' to Nadal for time wasting when serving. Hewitt improved the percentage of first serves, got on track to put pressure on Nadal and were more likely to define him on the network from the bottom. Nadal, very intermittent, known weather the storm and wait for his moment. He had his options in the fifth game, which squandered five break balls, but would break the long-awaited somewhat later, in the seventh. Thereafter, there was no party. Two sets of proceedings that ended in the payroll of Nadal that he clenched his fists on the occasion of victory before it is consumed within two hours of play. The passport for the second round was sealed.
Nadal returns to the second round, round that fell unexpectedly last year to Sweden's Robin Soderling. However, the duvet has been the only one who has won the Balearic on these roads. This time Rafa's rival will be the Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci, who beat Croatian Ivan Ljubicic by a score of 7-6, 6-2, 6-4, after two hours and twenty minutes of play in a meeting in the Track 2 . The South American world number 29, is the great hope of the Brazilian courts, which since the time of Guga Kuerten and Fernando Meligeni are hungry for a leader of security. The only precedent between Nadal and Bellucci had, curiously, this same scenario. In the first round of Roland Garros 2008, Nadal won a young Bellucci 20 years by a score of 7-5, 6-3, 6-1. Now Rafa will find a more mature player and forcing the Manacor to present the best version of tennis. That will be as early as next Monday ...