NADAL SAKES OFF ROUGH START;ADVANCES TO ROUND 4 AT WIMBLEDON

#1 tennis player in the world Rafael Nadal shook off a slow start to cruise to a victory over #63 ” Mikhail Kukushkin 6-7(4),6-1,6-1,6-1 on Saturday to advance the 4th round at Wimbledon. Nadal lost the first set but then shook off the scary start and blew through the next three winning by a combined total of 18-3.”Every match is so difficult here. Especially when you play against players that really decide to play every shot (at) full power. I played a bad game in the 4-4 and I lost the first set. I think until that moment I was playing better than him, but didn’t have my chances on the return because he was serving well. (I am) very happy. It is a very important victory for me. … I finished the match playing at a very high level.” The shaky starts are concerning as this is the third straight match Nadal has dropped set#1, Nadal was destroyed in the tiebreaker only scoring 4 times but against the best player in the world Kukushkin dropped the next three sets consecutively: 6-1, 6-1, 6-1.

HERE IS HOW THE TOP 32 SEEDS ARE DOING

Seed	Rank	Player					Next Match/Match they lost in
1	2	Novak Djokovic					Fourth Round vs.  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [14]
2	1	Rafael Nadal					Fourth Round vs.  Nick Kyrgios [WC]
3	5	Andy Murray					Fourth Round vs.  Kevin Anderson [20]
4	4	Roger Federer					Fourth Round vs.  Tommy Robredo [23]
5	3	Stan Wawrinka					Third Round vs.  Denis Istomin
6	6	Tomáš Berdych					Third Round lost to  Marin Čilić [26]
7	7	David Ferrer					Second Round lost to  Andrey Kuznetsov
8	9	Milos Raonic					Fourth Round vs.  TBD
9	11	John Isner					Third Round vs.  Feliciano López [19]
10	13	Kei Nishikori					Third Round vs.  Simone Bolelli [LL]
11	12	Grigor Dimitrov					Fourth Round vs.  Leonardo Mayer
12	10	Ernests Gulbis					Second Round lost to  Sergiy Stakhovsky
13	14	Richard Gasquet					Second Round lost to  Nick Kyrgios [WC]
14	17	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga					Fourth Round vs.  Novak Djokovic [1]
15	24	Jerzy Janowicz					Third Round lost to  Tommy Robredo [23]
16	15	Fabio Fognini					Third Round lost to  Kevin Anderson [20]
17	16	Mikhail Youzhny					Second Round lost to  Jimmy Wang [Q]
18	23	Fernando Verdasco					First Round lost to  Marinko Matosevic
19	25	Feliciano López					Third Round vs.  John Isner [9]
20	18	Kevin Anderson					Fourth Round vs.  Andy Murray [3]
21	19	Alexandr Dolgopolov					Third Round lost to  Grigor Dimitrov [11]
22	27	Philipp Kohlschreiber					Second Round lost to  Simone Bolelli [LL]
23	22	Tommy Robredo					Fourth Round vs.  Roger Federer [4]
24	21	Gaël Monfils					Second Round lost to  Jiří Veselý [WC]
25	34	Andreas Seppi					First Round lost to  Leonardo Mayer
26	29	Marin Čilić					Fourth Round vs.  Jérémy Chardy
27	28	Roberto Bautista Agut					Third Round lost to  Andy Murray [3]
28	31	Guillermo García-López					First Round lost to  Dušan Lajović
29	33	Ivo Karlović					First Round lost to  Frank Dancevic [LL]
30	30	Marcel Granollers					Second Round lost to  Santiago Giraldo
31	35	Vasek Pospisil					First Round lost to  Robin Haase
32	32	Dmitry Tursunov					First Round lost to  Denis Istomin