Routine day at the Roland garros in the men’s draw where all seeds won their games.
NADAL – BOLELLI 6-2 6-2 6-1
The most important match of the day was Nadal’s with the Spaniard trying to reach a whopping 7th title at the French Open.
The unlucky guy to play Rafa in the first round was Bolelli.
The Italian won only 5 games to be completely outplayed by the King of Clay.
It was interesting the fact that the second set was a close encounter with Rafa struggling to contain the Italian’s comeback from a 0-4 deficit. The remarkable stuff? Even if the Italian played very well in that particular stint to go back to 2-4 and to have few break points to get back the break down…. after all that effort… finally he lost the set with a meagre 6-2.
“I think I did what I had to do today. I’m happy. I played probably with less stress or nerves than in other first rounds in the past,” Nadal said
Then a bit of a controversy about the centre court.
“I’m not the right player to say I don’t like that court. That’s the first thing,” he replied “But I know an opinion that it’s true it’s not an easy court. Difficult court to play. A lot of wind around. The conditions can be very difficult to play,”
“Because a lot of days in the outside court, the wind is almost zero, and you go to the center and you feel the wind. So it’s a little bit strange thing, but that happens.”
OTHER RESULTS
Gasquet – Zopp 6-3 6-4 7-6 (4)
Murray – Ito 6-1 7-5 6-0
span style=”font-size: medium;”>Benneteau – Zverer 6-2 6-7(3) 6-4 6-4
Tipsarevic – Querrey 2-6 6-4 7-6(3) 6-3
Monaco – Rufin 6-2 2-6 6-2 7-6(3)
Ferrer – Lacko 6-3 6-4 6-1
Paire – Ramos 7-6(3) 6-4 6-7(5) 6-3
Haas – Volandri 6-3 0-6 6-4 6-4
Chardy – Yen-Hsun 6-4 6-1 6-7(3) 3-6 11-9
Tursinov – Soeda 6-1 6-4 6-4
Istomin – Kunitsyn6-2 6-1 6-2
Rosol – Berloq 6-4 7-5 6-7(6) 6-2
Haase – Dodig 6-2 6-2 6-1
Youzhny – Blake 6-2 6-1 6-2
Baghdatis – Chela 6-3 6-3 6-1
Almagro – Lorenzi 6-3 7-5 6-4
Stakhovsky – Dolgolopov 6-7(4) 6-4 7-6(4) 3-6 6-3
Schwank – Karlovic 6-4 6-0 6-3
Nieminem – Andreev 3-6 6-2 2-1 ret.
Mayer – Gimeno-Traver 6-4 6-2 6-3
