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.