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Nadal, Blake move on at Indian Wells

Tue 18th, March 2008

Indian Wells, CA (Sports Network) - Defending champion Rafael Nadal and James Blake moved on in third-round play at the $3.589 million Pacific Life Open -- the first ATP Masters Series event of the year.

Spain's Nadal, the second seed, beat his 18-year-old American opponent Donald Young 6-1, 6-3 on the hardcourts at the sprawling Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

America's Blake, the ninth-seed, had an equally easy time with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Spain's Carlos Moya.

The last match of the day produced the upset of the day as Korean Hyung-Taik Lee bested fifth-seeded Spaniard David Ferrer 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-3), in a match that lasted nearly three hours.

Third-seeded Serbian Novak Djokovic handled 27th-seeded German Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 6-2 while eight-seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet downed 28th-seeded Argentinean Juan Ignacio Chela 6-2, 6-1.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France, the 17th-seed, knocked out 14th-seeded compatriot Paul-Henri Mathieu 7-6 (7-5), 6-4. Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka ousted 18th-seeded Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 6-3, 6-7 (1-7), 6-0.

In a battle between two Argentineans, 16th-seeded Guillermo Canas bounced back from a tough second set to take Juan Monaco 6-3, 6-7 (1-7), 6-2.

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