That one point never arrived as Nadal played his most brilliant tennis of the evening: forehand winner, service winner, backhand winner, ace and a strong serve to finish off the game.

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"He played very well, he's very powerful, has a great a service, a great forehand and backhand, " he conceded.

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He enjoyed a good start Sunday and broke Nadal's first service game with a forehand winner before holding serve to love.

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Agassi came from 3-1 down to win the first-set tiebreak, hitting a forehand winner off Kuerten's short service return.

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Robson was not done, however, and two searing forehand winners helped her break serve before she raced through a service game to level at 5-5.

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Nadal broke back and it looked headed for a tiebreaker until he wobbled in the 10th game on his own service, Soderling taking the opener as Nadal made two forehand errors from deuce.

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Murray could not force a single break point against the top seed's service and Federer sealed the second set in 46 minutes with a sweeping forehand.

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Murray responded to lead 0-30 in Federer's next service game, but two marvellous drop shots, an ace and stunning cross-court forehand put the world number one within a game of levelling.

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Both players held on their next service games and Davydenko clinched his third win in five attempts against Nadal when the Spaniard hit a forehand fractionally long.

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