| Category: Masters Series Tournaments Madrid, 6th of June. The Spaniards have returned this week to play a tournament on clay court, the surface where they can show their best performance. Rafael Nadal, the best player of the season on clay, had no problem to defeat the Argentine Juan Monaco in first round of the Synsam Swedish Open for 6-1, 6-1. With the victory of yesterday, Nadal has become the second player that has reached 50 victories in this season. The first one is the Swiss Roger Federer. Nadal, the No. 1 seed, will face fellow Spaniard Alberto Martin in the second round. Carlos Moyá and Juan Carlos Ferrero have advanced to the following round after defeating the Spaniard Alex Calatrava for 7-5, 6-2, and the Czech Lukas Dlouhy for 6-4, 6-1, respectively. |