Nadal may be the Adrian Monk among tennis professionals , but his career should not end with a smooth 1000 . After his jubilee victory on Wednesday, the 33-year-old now followed up with individual victory number 1001: 6: 1, 7: 6 (3) it was called the round of 16 of the Masters tournament in Paris-Bercy on Thursday evening against world number 61. Jordan Thompson.

While Nadal marched through on his own serve at the beginning of the game, Thompson always had to fight and conceded the decisive breaks to 3: 1 and 5: 1 for Nadal. Nadal then let a 40: 0 slip by again, but got the opening set in follow-up.

In set two, both players showed no weakness on their own serve. At 6: 5 for Thompson, Nadal came into trouble for the first time when Thompson got his first break chance of the match, but Nadal freed himself from the defensive at the end of a long rally with a strong backhand, then came on the trigger himself with the forehand and forced the Australian to the mistake. In the tiebreak it was then a clear thing for the world number two from Manacor.

In the quarterfinals, Nadal meets compatriot Pablo Carreno Busta, who won 7: 5, 6: 2 against Norbert Gombos in the afternoon.

Medvedev and Schwartzman make the quarter-final duel clear

The third seeded Daniil Medvedev and the sixth seeded Diego Schwatzmann also reached the round of the last eight. Medvedev won against Alex de Minaur with 5: 7, 6: 2, 6: 2, Schwatzman had with a 6: 1, 6: 1 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina no chance. Medvedev and Schwartzman meet on Friday. The Argentine has already presented himself in strong form at previous tournaments - with a final in Rome, the semi-finals at the French Open and a final in Cologne.

Also won: Milos Raonic 7: 6 (1), 6: 2 against Marcos Giron and Ugo Humbert 6: 3, 6: 7 (4), 6: 3 against Marin Cilic.

In the evening, Alexander Zverev and Adrian Mannarino ( here in the tennisnet live ticker) as well as Stan Wawrinka and Andrey Rublev face each other.

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