Watch Rafael Nadal vs. Gilles Muller

A 4th day on Wimbledon championship in tennis. Rafael Nadal facing the us tennis player Gilles Muller. May be Nadal facing a tough opponent on this early round. Shortly after reaching the third round at Wimbledon, defending champion Rafael Nadal called his next opponent “dangerous” and predicted it would be a “tough” match.

Sounds just like Rafa, the humble-talking Spaniard who always builds up the guy on the other side of the net. This time, though, he may actually be right. The 10-time Grand Slam champion will next face Gilles Muller of Luxembourg, the only man other than Roger Federer to beat Nadal at the All England Club since 2005. “Was a long time (ago), but he beat me,” said Nadal, the Wimbledon champion in 2008 and ’10. “Gilles is a very dangerous player. He has a very good serve, good volley. He’s especially very dangerous player in this kind of surface. So will be tough match for me. Nadal advanced Wednesday by beating Ryan Sweeting of the United States 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. Muller had a much shorter match, going through when 31st-seeded Milos Raonic retired with a hip injury while leading 3-2 in the first set. At the 2008 US Open Gilles Müller, then ranked 130, had to go through the qualification tournament. He reached the main draw, where he consecutively beat Laurent Recouderc, former No. 2 Tommy Haas, Nicolás Almagro and 5th-seeded Nikolay Davydenko, advancing to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career. In fact, he was not sure that he would even qualify and so he did not even book a hotel room for the tournament. He then lost to defending and eventual champion Roger Federer by a score of 7–6(5), 6–4, 7–6(5). On January 19, 2009, Müller beat Spaniard Feliciano López by a score of 6–3, 7–6(5), 4–6, 4–6, 16–14 in an epic four hours, twenty-four minutes long match in the first round of the 2009 Australian Open. Müller beat local favorite Bernard Tomic 3–6, 6–1, 6–4, 6–2 in the second round, eventually losing in the third to eighth seed Juan Martín del Potro.