Nada Doing for Nadal

French Open champion Rafael Nadal today crashed out of Wimbledon in the second round to debutant Gilles Muller.

The Spaniard was seeded No4 at the All England club following his triumph in Paris, but today found former Wimbledon Junior finalist Muller just too strong.

Nadal failed to convert several break-point chances and it was no surprise when he lost the opening set 6-4. He improved somewhat, particularly when coming to the net to take the second set 6-4, but he had no answer to the combinations of the 69th-ranked Luxembourg player as a double fault handed Muller the third set 6-3.

The 22-year-old broke Nadal again in game five of the fourth set and despite Nadal digging deep and holding his next two service games he could not prevent Muller from clinching the set 6-4 to take the match.

In the third round, Muller will meet French youngster Richard Gasquet, who continued his impressive Wimbledon debut today with a 7-6, 7-6, 6-7, 6-2 victory over Belgian qualifier Gilles Elseneer.