Second Round " 6-1 defeat HEWITT AND 6-2.
It's the best match I've played here, "he said, sweaty, two minutes after leaving the central track. Rafa Nadal rose above a tired Lleyton Hewitt (6-1, 6-2) in one hour and a half low, ideal for a player who has a terrifying season in what numbers. Their duels with the Australian ramp hard not hold any precedent favorable, so the party had its danger.
However, second favourite broke in the fourth game of the first partial and no longer left his opponent do anything else until the final 6-2. There, the newly launched party, and was Hewitt who, with their ancentrales back problems and a marathon doubles match on Monday, not stubborn by any ball that was beyond its scope. Neither is trying. Nadal, already in a version closer to normal, threw hand of his forcefulness.
He returned to break the Hewitt serve at the beginning of second set, and then you sobrevino the only moment of weakness. He lost two games followed, including the following with its draw, and then on the track heard a cry, "Come on!". There was a time in which those words sounded to defeat in the Spanish tennis, but that, today, has also changed. Neither Hewitt is that of a few years ago nor intimidated by Nadal gets a shout. Five games in a row and think eighths finals, where they will play against Russian Igor Andreev, the French executioner Michael Llodra. In addition, in the last game, with its draw, built a 0-40 and closed, also with five consecutive points, its second pipeline in Beijing.