Rafael Nadal showed some signs of a fight in the third set, but Juan Martin del Potro put him away convincingly in the third set, 6-2. del Potro will advance to the men's final to face the winner of today's Federer-Djokovic match.
Though the score of each set is identical, the match was considerably more balanced in the first set and a half. Nadal started to look tired halfway through the second set, and never managed to find an answer to del Potro's powerful strokes.