Yawn: Nadal gets victory in Rio at 3:21 in the morning (Yahoo Sports)

Top-seeded Rafael Nadal overcame the stiffest test so far in his first clay-court tournament of the season, defeating No. 6 Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay 4-6, 7-5, 6-0 to reach the semifinals of the Rio Open. The ATP says one non-Grand Slam match ended slightly later – 3:24 a.m. in Tokyo in 2006. It was the ATP that didn’t want to reschedule a match. It’s seems like a terrible error to me.” Nadal will have about 16 hours to rest before he faces No. 4 Fabio Fognini in Saturday’s semifinals.