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Q. How would you describe that match? It was a three-set match, but no sets seemed to be a really close one tonight.
RAFAEL NADAL: No, these kind of days that things have been like this, difficult to find a real reason. I think things happens quick here because the court is fast and is true that in the first set, sometimes the player who is taking advantage stay with the adrenaline very high, is able to increase the advantage. Is difficult to stop the momentum of the opponent, no?

Well, in general terms have been an up-and-down match, but a positive match for me because I have been playing better and better when the match was coming, so...

Q. When you look at this year as a whole so far, coming straight through this match, how would you compare the quality of tennis you're playing maybe to years past? Are you better than ever before? Right where you want to be?
RAFAEL NADAL: No, I am not better than ever before. I am how I am today. I'm having a good season more or less, being competitive almost in every single event that I have been playing. Of course, I had some physical issues the first three, four months of the season.

MONTREAL (Reuters) – Defending champion Rafa Nadal maintained his momentum in Canada and cruised to a 6-3 6-4 win over Argentinean Guido Pella to advance to the Rogers Cup quarter-finals on Thursday.

“It was a tough day in terms of wind. But we are used to playing like this. When we play on outdoor courts, that's part of the game, too. Of course it is better to play without this kind of wind.”

“At the same time, it is beautiful to play under tough conditions because then the player who has different options to play has better chances to survive these kind of days.