Blake, Nadal's first opponent in Shanghai

Rafa Nadal knew who will be their first opponents in Shanghai after the victory of American James Blake on 'gunboat' Croatian Ivo Karlovic 3-6, 7-6, 6-3. The Spaniard last week and dropped the American in Beijing in a match that went to three sets. The Yonkers won his first three games in the Balearic becoming their 'bete noire', but the last three have been favorable to world number two.
Furthermore, Spanish tennis player David Ferrer and Tommy Robredo could not stop the second round of the Shanghai Masters 1000, after beating with relative ease in straight sets at the French Richard Gasquet and Michael Llodra.
The first to get their classification was the player of Girona, fourteenth favorite quote, which did not give too many options Llodra, ranked from the prior and he defeated 6-1, 6-4. Robredo was a good level throughout the match and just gave up points on serve, which allowed him not to grant balls 'break' her rival.
With a big serve, the Spanish broke twice to quickly close the first set, and although in the latter found more resistance, took one of his two breaking balls and took the victory. Now they face the winner of the match between the German Florian Mayer and Philipp Petzschner.
The story of the game put Llodra, who was with fever during the previous day and did not know whether to shake hands with Robredo to congratulate him, "just had the flu A". Robredo said: "As we have said, at once, both the referee and I've washed your hands with a special liquid, to get more comfortable". Finally, he took iron Girona case and described the story as "funny".
For its part, with a little more work, but with equal strength, got his pass to the second round by winning David Ferrer Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-4, 6-3.
El de Jávea released before the Frenchman came quickly and stood with the score 3-0 in the product of two 'breaks'. However, the Marseillaise was recovered and returned paths breaks for even the score. The Spanish held and returned to his best tennis to break in the seventh game (4-3) and sentence with their service.
In the second set, the player returned to Valencia 'steal' the Gasquet serve in the first moments, and this time, offered no cracks on his serve to clinch the match, helped by a new break in the eighth game. His next opponent will be compatriot Feliciano Lopez, who yesterday and got rid of another player from the 'Armada', Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.