Rafael Nadal cruises into quarters

PARIS -- Rafael Nadal routed Juan Monaco 6-2, 6-0, 6-0 Monday to reach the quarterfinals, staying on track for his bid for a record seventh French Open title.
It was a stress-free match that took 14 minutes short of two hours. Nadal faced only two break points and saved them both, with neither the wind nor his 13th-seeded opponent causing the slightest trouble.

Nada's 19 dropped games in the tournament are the fewest to this point at Roland Garros since 1982, when Guillermo Vilas dropped only 16. Like Nadal, John McEnroe also made it through four rounds while losing only 19 games at the 1984 U.S. Open.
"I feel really comfortable, really at ease," said Nadal, who is tied with Bjorn Borg with a record six French Open championships. "When the tournament is over, I'll tell you if this was my best Roland Garros or not. For the time being, I'm still playing. So far, so good. But we'll see. Things could change."
He trailed 2-1 at the start against Monaco, one of Nadal's best friends on tour, before reeling off the last 17 games in a row.
"I feel very, very sorry for him," the No. 2-seeded Nadal said after improving to 49-1 in the French Open over his career.
The only loss came in the fourth round in 2009 against Sweden's Robin Soderling.
He broke Monaco eight times.
He made only 13 unforced errors. That raised his total for the tournament to 64 -- or 13 fewer than No. 1-seeded Novak Djokovic made in his fourth-round match alone.
"When you reach quarterfinals with my results, that's always something positive, that's true. ... I have won quite easily. My results are good," Nadal said. "But I'm not going to go through immediately [to] the semifinals."
Nadal's quarterfinal will be an all-Spanish matchup against 12th-seeded Nicolas Almagro, who defeated Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 earlier in the day. .
Almagro hasn't lost a set at this year's French Open.
Nadal, Almagro said, is "the man on clay, and we are trying to [get] close to him. We are working hard to do our best."

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