The world number two fell to the Swiss in straight sets (6-3 and 6-0) in a match where the winner of last year´s Masters gave no option to Spanish in no time.
Roger Federer won with authority today to Spanish Rafael Nadal, world number two in the Masters Cup to be played in London, 6-3, 6-0 in one hour exactly.
While Nadal did not fail to be drawn from the manga blows bright until the end of the meeting, the Spaniard, who received a resounding 6-0 in the second set, only real resistance opposed to number four in the first twenty minutes.
In the forty remaining option Federer gave Nadal, who in last Sunday´s match against Mardy Fish suffered stomach problems, and ended up insane today, chasing balls around the track that sent the Swiss.
Despite the overwhelming dominance of the winner of the Masters last year, in the crash was no shortage of endless exchanges of balls tight to the line, the duels in the network and ensuring any master strokes among those who have grabbed the top two spots in the ATP rankings for almost a decade.
The statistics are met tonight, and Nadal again fell to Federer in indoor track, a scenario in which the Spaniard has never been able to surpass his rival.
Federer was tuned from the first minute, although it opened the game with a double fault, the only one to commit tonight, and used his service to force Nadal to run side to side of the track.
The Swiss suffered to rest, but when he did shoot back the Majorcan forcing long rallies in which poisoned the ball and waited patiently Nadal error.
Everything to presage a duel which is defined in little details, like which led to the first imbalance: Federer broke the Spaniard after the service of an endless exchange of blows to the network set that ended when one of the balls down a few millimeters Nadal beyond the line.
The script for the night, however, took a turn with the advantage of Federer, who came up and was just one step to be done with a breaking ball and set with the score 5-2.
The number two, which fell last year in the final of this tournament against the Swiss momentarily resisted the onslaught, but only during a game might contain more than five times winner of the Masters Cup, which is partially scored by 6 -3.
Nadal downed defending forces to serve in the first game of the second set but Federer showed intractable from the bottom of the track and from the network, and took an advantage that was beginning to seem unreasonable that Nadal could compose himself.
Far from being reunited with their usual game, Spanish disappeared from the track in the final moments of the match, in which the Swiss seemed to come easily to all the balls while Nadal had to spend their shots over the net.
Despite the defeat, the London tournament format allows the Mallorcan stay alive in the competition, and number two will play Thursday against Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to try to get into the semifinals of the Masters Cup, before travel to Seville in early December to play the Davis Cup final against Argentina.