Three matches and three comfortable wins . Rafael Nadal has made the perfect start to his bid for a record seventh French Open title , but the Spaniard will not face his first serious test until the clay-court grand slam enters its second week . The two-time defending champion will next play Juan Monaco in the last 16 , having crushed one of the Argentine 13th seed 's lesser-rated compatriots Eduardo Schwank 6-1 6-3 6-4 in the third round on Saturday . `` I have started well in the tournament -- into the second week now , that is the most important thing , '' Nadal told reporters . `` Now I have a big confrontation against Monaco . He is having a fantastic season . '' Monaco has never gone past round four in a grand slam , but like Nadal he is adept on clay -- having won five ATP Tour titles and reached seven other finals on the dirt surface . Chinese fans track Li 's Paris progress . Monaco has won only once in their four meetings , when Nadal retired hurt during a hard-court event in 2007 , but he showed his mettle against big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic on Saturday as he came from behind to triumph 6-7 ( 5-7 ) 6-3 6-7 ( 5-7 ) 6-3 6-4 . Nadal has lost only once at Roland Garros since his first appearance in Paris in 2005 , when he began a run of four successive French Open titles , while Monaco 's best effort is a fourth-round defeat in 2007 . If he wins , Nadal will then take on his 12th-seeded compatriot Nicolas Almagro or Serbia 's world No . 8 Janko Tipsarevic in the quarterfinals . The 10-time grand slam champion could face a semifinal against world No . 4 Andy Murray , who showed no sign of his worrying back problems on Saturday as he set up a last-16 clash with French 17th seed Richard Gasquet . `` I felt like I moved pretty well today . When you 're playing in slams , I just think each day you need to take as it comes . And I felt much better than I did the other day . I felt better than I did yesterday , '' Murray said after beating Colombia 's 50th-ranked Santiago Giraldo 6-3 6-4 6-4 . `` So I 'm hoping that tomorrow I 'll feel good again , and that 's all you 've got to do is each day just be a little bit better . '' Murray had been accused of being a `` drama queen '' by former tennis star Virginia Wade after receiving lengthy on-court treatment during an earlier match against Jarkko Nieminen , but revealed he had refused pain-killing injections to counter the back pain he has been suffering since the start of this year . `` Guys often during tournaments have numbing shots , if they 're just trying to get through a match and are deep in a tournament or whatever , '' the Scot said . `` But I did n't do that . We got a lot of advice , I saw the doctor here and spoke to him as well , and took all the right medication and did all the right treatments . '' Gasquet fought back from a slow start to defeat former world No . 2 Tommy Haas 6-7 ( 3-7 ) 6-3 6-0 6-0 . The 34-year-old German , now ranked 112th , capitulated as he lost the last 14 games of the match . `` I knew that he had not played long matches in a while . There were quite a lot of people out there , so I really wanted to win this match , to give everything I could , '' said Gasquet , who lost in the fourth round last year and beat Murray in Rome in April to level their head-to-head record at 3-3 . `` It was a beautiful match , and I played really well during the third and fourth sets . '' The winner of the Murray-Gasquet match is likely to face world No . 5 David Ferrer in the last eight . The Spaniard thrashed Russian 27th seed Mikhail Youzhny 6-0 6-2 6-2 to set up a clash with compatriot Marcel Granollers , who beat a tired Paul-Henri Mathieu . The Frenchman overcame American John Isner in the second-longest match in French Open history in the previous round , which lasted five hours 41 minutes , but he could not repeat the effort as he went down in another five-setter 6-4 6-4 1-6 4-6 6-1 .
Six -time Argentine Open champion Richard Gasquet through to the last 16 in Paris . Spaniard crushes French qualifier Eduardo Schwank in second week 's third round . He will next play 13th seed Rafael Nadal when tournament moves into second week . World No . 4 Andy Murray also reaches the fourth round , where he faces Richard Gasquet .