Cincinnati: Second seed Rafael Nadal and emerging British prospect Andy Murray survived tough tests to reach the quarter-finals of the Cincinnati Masters Series event on Thursday.
Nadal battled past German Tommy Haas 7-6 6-3 while Murray followed up his win over world number one Roger Federer the previous day by recovering from 4-2 down in the deciding set to beat American Robby Ginepri 7-6 2-6 6-4.
French Open champion Nadal next meets Spain's Juan Carlos Ferrero, who put out Swede Robin Soderling 7-5 6-4.
Haas led 5-3 in the tiebreak only for the Spaniard to win four consecutive points to take the opening set.
Games went with serve in the second set until the eighth game when Nadal broke to love.
The 19-year-old Murray dug deep to dismiss Ginepri, a semi-finalist at last year's US Open.
Playing his 13th match in 16 days, Murray led 3-1 before he was pegged back to 3-3.
He saved two set points at 4-5 and later went on to snatch the tiebreak 7-3. Ginepri rallied to take the second set and led 4-2 in the decider but a revitalised Murray broke twice to set up a meeting with American Andy Roddick or Argentine Juan Ignacio Chela.
Fourth seed Ivan Ljubicic beat Slovak Dominik Hrbaty 7-5 6-4 and next faces seventh seed Tommy Robredo of Spain.
Chilean 13th seed Fernando Gonzalez also advanced after a 7-6 7-5 win over unseeded Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka.
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