Federer Made Short Work Of Simon Nadal Struggled Against Qualifier

The world no 3 and no 2 seed Roger Federe continued his impressive performance at Internationl Bnl d,Italia Rome.  He beat Gilles Simon the French veteran by 6-1 6-3.  In the whole match there was all over Federer.  Federer gave no chance to Simon to even think of getting back into the match.  His serve was impressive in the whole match.  He did not face a single break in the whole match.  He won 10 of 12 points of his second serve.

 He fired 22 winners.  He converted 4 of 8 break points that he produced.  He continued to hold serve by getting cheap points and tease Simon on his serve.  Therefore it took him just 61 minutes to get rid of French man and safely through to the quartefinals, wherer he will face rising star Jerzy Janowics.  Federer is bidding to win his first title at Rome.
In the other match Nadal was struggling with his game.  His performance against qualifier Gulbis raised questions about his performace at French open, whic is starting in just 10 days.  Nadal overcome a huge threat by 1-6 7-5 6-4.  In the first set Gulbis conquered the field and won first five games and got 5-0 lead against Nadal.  Then Nadal hold the serve to get respectibility on scoreboard.  After that Gulbis served out for the set and took the set by 6-1.

 In the second set Nadal started to focus on his own serve and set went with serve until Nadal was leading 6-5 and Gulbis was serving to stay in the set, Nadal jumped upon that opportunity and took that set 7-5 breaking Gulbis serve.  In the third set same thing was happened when Gulbis was serving to stay in the match at 5-4, Nadal broke him again to seal the victory.  Gulbis performance was excellent.  He fired 16 aces, his total points were 2 more than that of Nadal.  Anyhow scoreboard favoured Nadal.  Now Nadal will face fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in Quarters.