Rafael Nadal had no mercy from French Nicolas Devilder, who won in three sets by 6-4, 6-0 and 6-1, and was ranked for the third round of Roland Garros, where he expects the Finn Jarkko Nieminen, who has won all four previous duels.
Nadal is still far from his best game, but continues to make progress and offering increasingly better feelings on the runway in Paris. The Manacorense left something cold and doubtful to track Suzzane Lenglen of the French capital, but at Like Brazilian Bellucci in front of the first round, was released after the first set of drink and exhibited at times beatings that have taken him to be champion three times in this tournament.
Devilder, an unknown even to their fellow tennis player, left without complex and posed a direct duel, bluntly. The French showed a powerful, a strong right and correct a setback and drive, which put in serious trouble to Nadal throughout the first sleeve.
Nadal and to a good sack of errors not inclined forced the set in favour of Spanish. In the second raise bet, Nadal put the direct and repeated the script of the encounter against Bellucci, which however was interrupted by rain when the crash marched wind in its sails and 5-0 for the Mallorcan.
Just over an hour and a half it took to the encounter from restarting. Nadal did everything possible to avoid losing concentration and not to close the set flaqueó nothing more
The first break of Spanish in the sixth game of the match was answered by two consecutive games of his rival, aware of the stamina of Spanish and committed to finish the points early, racing to the maximum in their strokes. A point was to put the 5-4 in their favour in the ninth game, but a major setback to cut Rafah slowed down the aisle streak of French and was the prelude to what he would come over.
The impetuous Devilder game was not enough to hurt resume the match. Threading the second set ended with the hopes of a Devilder in the third took over starting any applause in the audience for his insistence that to stay in the match.