Rafael Nadal was given a tough workout by Aussie Peter Luczak.

Nadal had a very slow start and looked half a step too slow around the court when faced with Luczak’s powerful groundstrokes.

Nadal’s shots were landing too short and allowing Luczak to take charge with his forehand.

However facing the loss of the opening set at 5-3 down Nadal raised his game and hit back, before dominating a tiebreak 7-0. The defending champion started to race away with the match taking the second set 6-1 and establishing a 2-0 lead in the third.

Luczak did his best to make the rest of the match competitive but there was no way back and Nadal wrapped up a 7-6, 6-1, 6-4 win.

Nadal admitted it had taken him a while to get into the match.

“Peter was playing really well in the first set. I was playing (with) shorter (depth) than usual. I played with more mistakes. So late in the tiebreak he had three mistakes, so he helped me. And I was serving well, so I won the tiebreak,” he said. “After that I started to play longer, I started to play more aggressive, so I started to play more my tennis.”

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