Nadal also liquidates Travaglia and appears intact in the second round

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Intact, in another display of almost insulting superiority, Rafael Nadal qualified for the round of 16 at Roland Garros after beating Stefano Travaglia 6-1, 6-4 and 6-0, in one hour and 35 minutes.

The Spaniard, who did not concede a single

ball

, is still waiting for some compromised trance in a tournament so far to ask for nothing.

His next opponent will be this Sunday Sebastian Korda, son of Czech Petr Korda, in an unusual confrontation, like all those he has been in this edition in Paris.

Travaglia lost the initial nine points.

He won the first thanks to a crossed backhand, already at a clear disadvantage, recently entered in the Philippe Chatrier, this time covered by intermittent rain.

For now, awaiting greater difficulties, Nadal walks firmly, oblivious to the exceptional nature of the competition.

The Italian, 74th, came from defeating

in five sets

, in a statement of the combative character that allows him to continue playing tennis at 28.

In 2011, in Buenos Aires, he fell against a window after a slip and suffered a cut in several tendons in his wrist and right arm.

She operated on twice to face the fatality of fate;

medical reports suggested that a future could hardly be built with the racket.

Travaglia got used to playing with the left for a while and managed to recover with enormous dedication.

In 2017 he made the third round at the US Open and in Australia.

In 2019 it entered the

.

An abysmal distance

Meeting the 12-time champion and stepping onto the central in Paris for the first time was the best reward obtained so far in his career.

Opposition raised little.

As happened to

and

in the preceding rounds, the player from Ascoli Picano, a town near Perugia, internalized each added game as a great achievement.

Nadal confessed after reaching the sixteenth that the first two meetings did not allow him to have too many certainties.

Neither does this victory against Travaglia provide relevant clues, beyond certifying his unquestionable strength.

There is a gulf between the man who aspires to equal

20 Grand Slam titles

and any of his opponents so far, as has happened, to a greater or lesser extent, in the way of

, also in the second round, and of

, who on Saturday will join them if they

beat Colombia 's

Daniel Elahi Galan, 153rd in the world and from the previous one

.

Eliminated from the start at the Australian Open (

) and the recent US Open (

), Travaglia performs better on clay, as shown by the third round in Rome, where he said goodbye to his compatriot

.

Languid, ungainly in appearance, it wraps well the right and exhibits attitude in the exchanges.

With these arguments, he resisted until the seventh game in the second set, at which time he gave up the serve again.

The third was a southpaw festival.

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