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Nadal needed one hour and a half to get rid of Raonic Ferrer, meanwhile, suffered more than the Spaniard to eliminate Ebden Giraldo and Stepanek, close rivals and Alicante manacorense respectively

Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer come through tough tournament in Tokyo on Thursday to seal his move to the quarterfinals. The manacorense tennis, top seed and defending champion, won the Canadian Milos Raonic in two runs, 7-5, 6-3 in one hour half of the match. The Alicante, third seed, came from behind to Australia's Matthew Ebden to win in straight sets 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Nadal, seeking his title 47, was very effective at Raonic, a pupil of Galo Blanco, who reappeared on the track after the problems suffered at Wimbledon, which forced him to be operated on 5 July and that slowed his progress after becoming a emerging values ​​of world tennis. The Spaniard took two balls rupture that was the whole game (one in each set) to claim the victory and proof of their strength, did not grant an opportunity to Raonic.

His next opponent will be the Colombian Santiago Giraldo, who beat Russian Dmitry Tursunov 6-4, 7-6 (4) in almost two hours. Nadal has set in his three previous Giraldo battles without losing a set in Indian Wells in 2008 in this same tournament in Tokyo last year and in Barcelona in this 2011. If you re- Nadal won, which has reached at least the quarterfinals in fourteen of the fifteen tournaments played this year, equal to 64 wins this season with the great master of it and number one in the world, Novak Djokovic.

Ferrer comeback

Ferrer, meanwhile, gave up two times its initial service in the manga, which cost him go along the rest of the crash, but from then reacted better settled on the track and got rid of the aussie `dangerous' to placed in quarters of a tournament that has already won in 2007. The Spanish player will face in rooms with Czech Radek Stepanek, seeded seventh, which has already been measured seven times, with four victories for Ferrer, the last in the Davis Cup final in 2009.

The world number one overcame his compatriot Daniel Gimeno-Traver by a double 6-1 in a match that decided in just one hour and seven minutes.

The Spanish Rafael Nadal, world number one has started the reconquest of the Barcelona Open with a convincing victory over his compatriot Daniel Gimeno-Traver, who has just endured sixty-five minutes before giving up track for a double 6-1.

Gimeno-Traver, who had even managed to win once to Nadal in their junior season but had never faced the Manacor (Mallorca) on the professional circuit, has only been able to keep their service twice and has not had one chance to break his opponent.

An intense and aggressive Nadal has entered the track determined to solve the fast track, sending the right and ending with the most committed to chain network win number 25 in Barcelona, ​​where he has not lost since falling at second round in 2003 before the Spanish Alex Corretja.

Nadal, top seed of the Barcelona Open, will face tomorrow in the second round by Colombian Santiago Giraldo, who today has broken the Spanish Albert Ramos in three sets (3-6, 4-6, 6-3).

His next opponent will be the Canadian Milos Raonic, from the pre · Guillermo Garcia-Lopez also won his debut with a victory but quite worked on Rajeem Ram

Rafa Nadal fulfilled predictions by qualifying for the second round in Tokyo, scoring for the ATP circuit and distributed $ 1,100,000 in prize money, beating Santiago Giraldo.

The world number one, a semifinalist last week in Bangkok, bowed to South America with a double 6-4 in a match decided in about two hours and which had to work very thoroughly before a rival fighter.

The Spaniard, who had warned that have to be more aggressive in this type of fast track, he needed his best to counter other powerful kick Giraldo, who hit eight aces.

Although not yield a single ball break, Nadal had four breaking balls against, look to be filing her face last big event of the year, the Masters Cup in London as Giraldo always gave the feeling of being able to close the gap.

Victoria Garcia-Lopez worked

It was more complicated Albacete Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, new champion in Bangkok and executioner of Nadal in the semis, they need to go back to fell to 174 in the world, the American Rajeem Ram, by 6-7 (3), 6-4 and 7 -6 (1). The de la Roda, visibly tired, gave the first set, but pulled himself together and took the second in relative comfort, although in the third needed a new tie-break to seal his move to the second round, where they will face Feliciano Lopez, who beat Juan Martin del Potro.

In addition, his rival in the final of Bangkok, the Finn Jarkko Nieminen starred the great surprise of the day by beating the defending champion, Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 5-7, 6-1.

Moreover, American Andy Roddick, seeded second, debuted with a comfortable victory over local Tatsuma Ito 6-4, 6-3 on a day which got off to Viktor Troicki great hope Japan, Kei Nishikori, 6-4, 6-2.