After 194 minutes of game play against Nicolas Almagro, Rafael Nadal consumed another 140 minutes of play against Tommy Robredo • The Hostalric managed to win a set in the sixth Balearic matchup between · Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, Rafa's next opponent
Rafael Nadal won the ticket to the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 in Paris (France) after the break in the second round to Tommy Robredo. The world No. 2, giving a better level than in their first game in Parisian land face Nicolas Almagro, the only survivor of the-Navy-in the tournament.
Rafael Nadal (2) beat Tommy Robredo (14) in the fratricidal duel fourth round of the tournament won by an aggregate score of 6-3, 3-6 and 7-5 after two hours and twenty minutes of play in the shock that evening opened the day on Center Court of Paris-Bercy complex. After a tentative first games where both players were studied from the bottom of the track, the remaining options came when they began to take risks. First it was Nadal in the fourth game, who moved his Robredo through from side to side of the track, enjoying a break ball that carried into effect. In the next game was Robredo who, dropping the right to take the lead in the points, posted up two balls that do not break materialized. The balance is not off balance until the eighth game, where Nadal, summoning the motto that always accompanies him (not to a single ball lost) struggled and worked a split that would earn post to take the first set of his locker.
Despite being the marker in his favor, Nadal remained concentrated as sent the script, but for the sake of entertainment ever to leave him out of authentic items for the archive. Robredo, however, threw in the towel at any time and still swimming against the tide, holding up the party across the network. Even managed to break the Balearic service in the fourth game, then bet on the attack from the bottom of the track, climb in and defend option was on the tape like a wild boar. Taking as a machine and defining with surgical precision, Robredo was able to match the race and force a third set.
After getting the first set in his favor after five previous clashes against Nadal, Robredo looked at Javier Duarte telling him from the stands that was the way forward. A path nevertheless difficult to walk because the world No. 2 did not give any respite option. Rafa again appear intractable on his serve and Tommy had to get the best version of tennis to keep your rope. Despite the marathon match, the level of tennis was growing. No margin of error. Against the Ropes, in the eleventh game of the match, the Spaniard double-faulted it meant leaving with 5-4 and Robredo to finalize the service crash. However, the Catalan will doubts entered the wrong moment and granted a Nadal contrabreak that which re-emerged phoenix, won three consecutive games (two breaks included) and sealed his move to the quarterfinals of the rhythm Come on. In the quarterfinals, expect the current defending champions: the local hero Tsonga.
Jo-Wilfred Tsonga (8) won the duel with fellow Frenchman Gilles Simon (11) by a score of 6-2, 6-3 in just 52 minutes of play in a crash played in the morning hours of the Center Court complex in Paris Bercy. Nadal and Tsonga have been measured to date on four occasions, winning three of the Spaniard and French.