Alex de Minaur is ranked more than 600 spots higher than Rafael Nadal, but he will have the weight of both players' history against him when they face off in Barcelona.
Rafael Nadal played his first match since January, winning through to a second-round clash with Australian Alex de Minaur at the Barcelona Open .
The world number 11 is in career-best form but is ramping up to the French Open, where he has never made it out of the second round."I'm not going to do anything that doesn't make sense right now. I'm not going to go out there and serve like crazy," Nadal said.The winner of Nadal-de Minaur will face either Daniel Altmaier or Arthur Fils in the third round after Altmaier beat another Australian, Alexei Popyrin, 6-3, 7-6.ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation.
O'Connell was beaten 6-3, 6-4 by Daniel Taro who, being ranked 85, is 27 places below him in the world.
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