5-time defending champion Rafael Nadal leads 4 Spaniards into Monte Carlo Masters quarters
By Jerome Pugmire, APThursday, April 15, 2010
Nadal leads 4 Spaniards into Monte Carlo quarters
MONACO — Rafael Nadal has breezed into the quarterfinals of the Monte Carlos Masters with a 6-0, 6-1 win over Michael Berrer and joins three of the Spaniards in the final eight.
Berrer won his only game Thursday when serving at 0-5, prompting cheers from the crowd.
Second-seeded Nadal has now won 29 straight matches at this event with his last loss coming in 2003.
Nadal next plays either fifth-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France or ninth-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain.
Sixth-seeded Fernando Verdasco, No. 11 David Ferrer and Albert Montanes all won their third-round matches.
Verdasco rallied from a set down to beat Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic 5-7, 6-3, 6-2; Ferrer beat No. 8 Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia 6-0, 7-6 (4); and Montanes won 6-4, 6-4 against No. 4 Marin Cilic, dominating the big-serving Croat from the baseline.
