The English Rafael Nadal in Miami was not comfortable and pending release that is the case of world number one ranking against 62. Japan's Kei Nishikori forced to battle for nearly two hours before giving a double 6-4 could be misleading if only considering the outcome. It was not easy.
To win the first set, Nadal had to raise four break points' against Nishikori worker to a bully at the bottom of the track, while the English had only one break point in his favor. The advantage, yes, and allowed him to gain an advantage in the fifth game (3-2) that was enough to win the round.
After the first set everything was easier for Nadal, and the second had five break points' for any Nishikori. The Spaniard only needed to take advantage of them to break the resistance of the Japanese and win the set for the same result as the first. Nishikori forced Nadal to be on track for an hour and 49 minutes, more than double what they needed the Serbian Novak Djokovic, fresh from Masters Champion 1000 Indian Wells, to pass over Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan, which defeated 6-0, 6-1 Friday in just 48 minutes.
Nadal will fight for a place in the quarter-final with compatriot Feliciano Lopez, who beat Argentine Juan Ignacio Chela, the twenty-sixth seed (7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-4) and reached the third round of the Miami Masters 1000 second season.
The current world number one has never won in Miami and is one of the few Masters 1000 to resist him after 18 titles in this tournament. His best finish in Miami is 2008, when he played the final against Russian Nikolay Davydenko and lost 6-4, 6-2.
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