Rafael Nadal advance to the quater-final

World number one, Rafael Nadal has advanced to the quater-finals of  Shanghai Masters defeating  Fabio Fognini on Thursday.

The 31-year-old Spaniard was comfortable in seeing off the 28th-ranked Italian 6-3, 6-1 and will play sixth seed Grigor Dimitrov in the last eight.

Top seed Nadal is chasing a seventh title this season, but a career-first Shanghai Masters.

Source: ( AFP )