The Argentine Juan Martin del Potro, Juan Monaco and the Spanish Rafael Nadal on Wednesday advanced to the third round of the Madrid Masters.
Del Potro won the ticket when his opponent Tomas Berdych left the game with a leg injury. The Czech, who on Sunday won his first title of the year in Munich, he retired while losing 6-2, 4-1.
Del Potro, who debuted in second round play at the next stage with the Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, who overcame 6-4, 7-5 to French Jeremy Chardy.
Monaco, which came with a wild card invitation, gave one of the surprises of the tournament by eliminating 6-4, 6-4 to Spanish David Ferrer, 12th Pre. The Argentine clash in the third round with the Spanish Fernando Verdasco.
Nadal, the tournament favorite in the clay courts, was classified with a 6-3 victory, 6-1 over Austrian Jurgen Melzer.
The only championship defense committed three errors not forced and won all four break points he had.
It is more difficult to play here than in surface height, Nadal commented on 600 meters above sea level, Madrid. More can be done with the ball with less effort, but your opponent can do.
For his part, Serbian Novak Djokovic won 6-3, 6-3 Oscar Hernandez and the Spanish also became the third round.
Djokovic never faced a break point and stole his serve Hernandez once in the first set and twice in the second, to conduct the match in 1 hour, 38 minutes.
Madrid is different because of its height and because the ball bounces a lot. He put much spin to counter that, said Djokovic. It is not easy to take the pace to a new stadium, and although the central stadium here is really good, the others are pretty bad.
In other matches on the second round, the French defeated Gilles Simon 6-3, 6-2 to Italian Fabio Fognini, the defeated German Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-1, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (2) to Croatian Marin Cilic, the American James Blake overcame 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (4) to Croatian Ivo Karlovic, and Italian Andreas Seppi 6-3 break, 4-6, 6-4 to American Sam Querrey .
In the female branch, the Belarussian Victoria Azarenka won 6-4, 6-1 Shuai Peng of China, and Russia beat Vera Dushevina 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 to Italy's Francesca Schiavone.
Moreover, the favorite Russian Dinara Safina was playing later against China Li Na.
