Nadal wins easily at Indian Wells

INDIAN WELLS, Calif., March 13 (UPI) -- World No. 1 Rafael Nadal lost only two games in a second-round victory Saturday at the Paribas Open tournament, an ATP Masters tournament in California.

Nadal won two-thirds of the points in a 6-0, 6-2 rout of Rik De Voest that took just 60 minutes. Nadal landed a relatively low 47 percent of his first serves and had three double faults but still lost just six points in seven service games.

He also piled up five breaks in winning 26 of the 48 points with de Voest serving.

Nadal will go against qualifier Ryan Sweeting in the third round. Sweeting earned that shot with a 6-1, 0-6, 6-1 victory over 27th-seeded Juan Monaco. Sweeting faced just two breaks points outside the second set.

Saturday saw a series of upsets, including fifth-seeded Andy Murray falling 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 to world No. 143 Donald Young and No. 6-seeded David Ferrer losing 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 to Ivo Karlovic.

Other seeded players eliminated were No. 14 Ivan Ljubicic, 15th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and No. 19 Marcos Baghdatis.

Fourth-seeded Robin Soderling was a 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) winner over Michael Berrer and No. 9-seeded Fernando Verdasco advanced when, after he built a 7-5, 2-0, Richard Berankis retired with an injury.

Other seeded players moving on to the third round with wins Saturday were No. 11 Nicolas Almagro, 20th-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov, No. 21 Sam Querrey, 23rd-seeded Albert Montanes, No. 25 Tommy Robredo, 28th seed Gilles Simon and No. 32 Philipp Kohlschreiber.