World number two Rafael Nadal ruled to a 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 victory over James Blake on Wednesday to reach the semi-finals of the Sony Ericsson Open. Nadal defeated his American rival for the first time in his career at the Pacific Life Open quarter-finals two weeks ago and replicated the act on Wednesday.
Blake made far too many oversights during the one hour, 55 minute contest, producing 31 effortless errors compared with just 13 for second seed Nadal. The American also proffered Nadal 19 opportunities to break his serve, the triple French Open champion successfully doing so four times in total.
Nadal will play 10th seed Tomas Berdych in the semi-finals after the Czech's 6-4, 6-4 victory over Russia's Igor Andreev.
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