The fate teamed up with the Manacor to enable him to launch his final assault at the All England Club in London without undue complications

If Björn Borg and gambled on Rafa Nadal as winner of Wimbledon before knowing the schedule of the tournament, the draw has ratified its expectations. And it is that of Manacor will have a relatively easy path to the finals, especially as the number 3 in the world, Russian Novak Djokovic has been framed in the upper table, the same as Roger Federer.

Nadal, No. 2 in the world and second-seeded debuts in the All England Club against the German Andreas Beck, 123 ATP ranking, as it presumes a match for the simple Manacor. The difficulty comes in Rafah in the second round, where he allegedly was measured at Latvian Ernests Gulbis (48), who already put embarrass his friend Djokovic on clay in Paris quarter-finals. After except surprise, Nadal would have to win to Kiefer (33) in third round to reach the round where, if the logic is imposed, he expected the Czech Radek Stepanek-seeded 15.

It should not have too many problems Nadal to reach the quarterfinals, as all four tournaments they have played have resulted in victory for the Balearic Islands. After the Czech, reached the French Richard Gasquet, who has a marker to 4-0 in favor personal confrontations. The move to the finals is what should play with Roddick (6) or Davydenko (4), provided that they satisfy the statistics.

And there, yes. The final match will be his great touchstone as, predictably and capitalized except surprise, the front will have five times champion of the tournament, Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic. Both surpassed them in the land of Paris, but London is always different. However, this year Nadal has won intact their chances to win after obtaining his first title in grass last week at Queen's.

However, some people still watching Federer unbeatable at the All England Club. Such is the case of Pete Sampras. The American cree que "is still the tennis player with a better chance of winning. He has not lost its advantage. " However, his presumed junction with Djokovic in semis could be worn for the finals, if not erasing it. Before dealing with the Serbian, Federer will have to overcome in the first round Slovak Dominik Hrbaty (272). would have to overcome the winner of Nalbandian-Baghdatis to reach the semis and the finals fighting with Federer.

The winner of the duel would rival Nadal. The bets are more open than ever. Nadal feels good physically and knows that he is deploying his best tennis. Federer has regained its confidence after the victory of Halle, but his game this season not being as effective as other years, and Djokovic remains a bone hard roer.
After could see across the network into Swedish Soderling (41), French Monfils (32), the Chilean Fernando Gonzalez (14) in eighths and David Ferrer (5) in the quarter, provided that this is due to Berdych (19) in eighths.

The race's third in discord, Djokovic, begins with their first-round duel with German Michael Berrer (83), to continue, in theory, with Marat Safin (77) and Andreas Seppi (30) before facing the Swiss Wrawrinka (10) in eighths. In quarters, (ALE), Feliciano Lopez-Brian Dabul (ARG), Guillermo Garcia-Lopez İzak Van der Merwe (SUD), Santiago Ventura-Rainer Schuettler (GER) and Carlos Alberto Montañés-BELOCQ (ARG). /> As far as the rest of Spaniards, the hype has not misbehaved with them. Only Oscar Hernandez has played one of the 32 preclasificados, Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu. David Ferrer, fifth in the ATP rankings, is presumed much higher than its first rival, Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky. All other parties' navy 'son Marcel Granollers-Nicolas Almagro, Juan Carlos Ferrero-Sam Querrey (USA), Tommy Robredo-Kristof Vliegen (GER), Fernando Verdasco-Philipp Kohlschreiber

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First round of Roland Garros

The Spanish Rafael Nadal tomb to Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci (7-5, 6-3 and 6-1) in 2 hours and 35 minutes and is measured in second round at French Nicolas Devilder.

Nadal could finally finish a game that had been delayed two days by rain, and that on this occasion was in a strong wind one of the main protagonists.

The rare weather conditions caused a party uncomfortable and cold, which Both players started losing his serve consecutively. Bellucci was an opponent as tough and brave, strong and the rest with a good right, which Nadal had problems throughout the first set.

Exchanges at long benefited from Manacor, but the ball short of a second slower or service Nadal were exploited by the Brazilian, who returned to break the service of Majorcan to lose it later.

Only errors not forced Bellucci deprived the young player to seriously complicate the life Nadal. In the end, the pressure and were able to win with the young debutant to tilt in favour of the sleeve tricampeón.

After the strains of the first set, both players are bent on slowing the game and make it boring at times, without any major shocks. None gave their service until the eighth game, where Nadal had already decided that enough and hoped that it was time to close the encounter.

That's when the Manacor awoke. A change in intensity and some of his blows were sufficient to impossible to break Bellucci and win the second set by 6-3. A agónico parallel to the line and a balloon mark of the house made to understand the extent of its Brazilian rival.

The third set did not have a history and handed Bellucci, Rafa closed the match in just over two and a half hours, finding his best blows and taking speed cruise he had failed to start. Debut of Spanish worked and sober, they are seen with Gallic Devilder in the second round to move forward in seeking its fourth title. the match in just over two and a half hours, finding his best blows and taking the cruise that he had failed to start. Debut of Spanish worked and sober, they are seen with Gallic Devilder in the second round to move forward in seeking its fourth title.