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Nadal demolished Juan Monaco of Argentina 6-2, 6-0, 6-0 in anawesome display of claycourt tennis that must have sent shiversthrough his rivals for the title. Countrymen David Ferrer and Nicolas Almagro had earlier gonethrough comfortably. Sixth-seeded Ferrer cruised past countryman Marcel Granollers 6-3,6-2, 6-0, and 12th seed Almagro pushed aside Janko Tipsarevic ofSerbia 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Murray then joined them with a disjointed 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 winover Frenchman Richard Gasquet.
The Scot will play Ferrer, while Nadal will go for his 50th win atRoland Garros against Almagro. Joining them in the last eight, in matches held over from Sunday inthe opposing top half of the draw, were Frenchman Jo-WilfriedTsonga and Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina. Tsonga, seeking to provide a first French win in the men's singlessince Yannick Noah in 1983, returned to action against StanislasWawrinka of Switzerland 4-2 ahead in the fifth set. And despite dropping his serve in the opening game, he held steadyto pull off a 6-4, 7-6 (8/6), 3-6, 3-6, 6-4 win that saw him intothe quarter-finals at Roland Garros for the first time.
Next up will be a meeting with top seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia,who has history-making on his mind too as he bids to become thefirst man in 43 years to hold all four Grand Slam titles at thesame time. "It was tough yesterday as it was dark at the end. I don't know ifwas great for me or not," Tsonga said. "But I came on the court this morning with a good spirit. I had agood night's sleep and I was ready to play again." Del Potro was two sets to one up against Tomas Berdych of the CzechRepublic when darkness fell on their fourth round tie late Sundayand he wasted little time on their return Monday to complete a 7-6(8/6), 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 win.
His reward will be another crack at third seed Roger Federer,against whom he lost a thrilling five-setter in the 2009semi-finals. Second seed Nadal won 17 games in succession to destroy Monaco andafterwards said he had to feel sorry for his close friend forsuffering such a heavy defeat. The Spaniard, bidding to become the first man to capture sevenRoland Garros singles titles, celebrated his 26th birthday onSunday while title rivals Djokovic and Federer were struggling intothe last eight. Monaco, the 13th seed, went into Monday's match with solidclaycourt form under his belt having captured titles in Vina delMar and Houston this year.
But he had lost all three previous clay meetings against Nadal,claiming just 10 games in the process, and the 28-year-old wasswept aside again by the champion in just one hour and 46 minuteson Suzanne Lenglen court. Fourth seed Murray looked all at sea for a set and a half beforehis fourth round clash with Gasquet turned dramatically late in thesecond set as the Scot found his touch and Gasquet totally losthis. The win means that Murray has reached a Grand Slam quarter-finalfor the sixth straight time, with Ferrer, who he has never beteanon clay, waiting for him as his opponent. For Gasquet there was the disappointment of failing to joincountryman Tsonga in the last eight.
The last time two Frenchmanmade the quarter-finals at Roland Garros was in 1990. "He started very, very well, went for his shots, high risk and wasplaying unbelievable," Murray said of his opponent. "I was lucky to turn it around at the end of the second set andthen I started to play a lot better." In the women's matches, defending champion Li Na crashed out of theFrench Open on Monday while Maria Sharapova survived a deluge oferrors on a bitterly cold day in Paris to struggle into thequarter-finals. Li, who was Asia's first Grand Slam singles champion when she tookthe 2011 title, lost her crown at the fourth round stage, goingdown 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 to Kazakh qualifier Yaroslava Shvedova, theworld 142.
Sharapova struggled into the quarter-finals, defeating Czechveteran Klara Zakopalova 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-2 in an error-scarredclash which featured 21 breaks of serve. The Russian second seed, seeking a Roland Garros title to completea career Grand Slam, goes on to face Estonian 23rd seed Kaia Kanepiwho put out Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands 6-1, 4-6, 6-0. I am a professional writer from Bag & Luggage Agents, which contains a great deal of information about wholesale janitorial supply , rattan magazine rack, welcome to visit!
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