French Open: Rafael Nadal and Thiem make into the round of 16.

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French Open 2020: Rafael Nadal cruises into the round of 16 with an easy victory over Stefano Travagla of Italy. Rafael Nadal getting near and near to match Roger Federer's 20 major titles. Rafael Nadal won a game with 6-1, 6-4, 6-0.

Rafael Nadal registered his win in just 95 minutes. It's another game where Nadal won one set without giving any points in a game of the third set. He gave only 5 games to his opponent in a match. Nadal is yet to drop any set in the french open. 

Nadal started a game in a dominant fashion, He gave only one game in the first set with winning the first nine points. He gave his opponent only six points. 

Nadal broke Travaglia's serve and went ahead with 4-3 but in the next game his opponent got a breakpoint on his serve but Nadal showed his resilient nature and saved a breakpoint. After this Travaglia held his serve in a second set. Nadal also held his serve and took a game, a set. He took a 2-0 lead in a match.

In the third set of a game, Nadal didn't give any chances to his opponent as he won the last set 6-0. Travaglia managed to get only 8 points in the set. Now he will face 213th ranked American qualifier, Sebastian Korda. 

 

Nadal said," I think today I played the best match this year at Roland Garros. " 

Domini Thiem also got a win in the third round of the French Open. He defeated Norway's Casper Ruud with a 6-4 6-3 6-1. Now he is in the round of 16 of the french open. Thiem struggled in the first set of a match where he faced 6 breakpoints. Thiem will face Daston who stuns Wawrinka.  

2015 french open champion Stan Wawrinka faced a shock defeat against 239 ranked player Hugo Gaston with 2-6 6-3 6-3 4-6 6-0. 

A match between Sonego and Fritz went into 2 tiebreakers. Sonego won a match with 7-6(7-5), 6-3, 7-6(19-17). In the third set, the tiebreaker went to 30 minutes. This tiebreaker is just 2 points away from matching the record set by Tsonga and Andy Roddick. They record 38 points in a tiebreaker.  

Zverev came back from his bad performance in his last game and got an easy win over Marco Cecchinato with 6-1 7-5 6-3.

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