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Rafael Nadal is into nan past 16 of nan Madrid Open aft a hard-fought triumph complete Argentina's Pedro Cachin.
The Spaniard, 37, came done 6-1 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 aft 3 hours and six minutes connected court.
Five-time champion Nadal is playing connected nan Madrid clay for nan last time, successful what he expects to beryllium nan past play of his career.
Nadal will play 30th seed Jiri Lehecka of nan Czech Republic connected Tuesday for a spot successful nan quarter-finals.
But Great Britain's Cameron Norrie is retired aft losing to 5th seed Casper Ruud successful consecutive sets.
The Norwegian, who won successful Barcelona past week, triumphed 6-2 6-4 and will look Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime successful nan adjacent round.
After being surgery successful his first work crippled of nan lucifer and going connected to suffer nan first set, Norrie went a break up early successful nan second.
However, Ruud deed backmost to make it 3-3 and past collapsed to emotion to clinch nan victory.
Third seed Daniil Medvedev besides progressed aft coming from a group down to hit America's Sebastian Korda 5-7 7-6 (7-4) 6-3.
Italian apical seed Jannik Sinner is successful action connected Tuesday evening. The Australian Open champion faces Pavel Kotov of Russia arsenic he continues his bid for a 4th title of 2024.
