Nadal, coming off his 11th Monte Carlo title, has won 11 of his 12 ATP Tour matches this season, with the only loss coming from an injury retirement in the Australian Open quarterfinals.
Djokovic, trying to return to form after a lingering right elbow injury, hasn't made it past the last 16 in five tournaments this year.
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Nadal also became the first male tennis player in the Open era to win the same title 11 times — 13 years after his first title here.
The top-ranked Nadal will face Kei Nishikori, who beat No. 4-ranked Alexander Zverev 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Djokovic was once Nadal's nemesis, even on clay. He ended the Spanish player's 46-match winning run by beating him in the 2013 final, and then won the tournament in 2015.
Sharapova, who has won five Grand Slam titles, had to pull out of Birmingham last year due to an injury.
Novak Djokovic and defending champion Rafael Nadal needed a combined 14 match points to reach the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday.
Rafael Nadal recently returned from a right hip injury which forced him to retire during the fifth set of his Australian Open quarterfinal against Marin Cilic.
Djokovic came to the tournament with a 3-3 match record this year, losing his last three since the Australian Open.
Nadal, who certainly enjoys playing on clay and has amassed an incredible 53 clay court titles in his career, teased Roger Federer for being `contradictory` over his decision.
Yuki earned 125 ranking points and a prize purse of USD 21,600 while Ramkumar got 75 points and USD 12,720 for his effort.
Sania Mirza said that pay disparity between men and women players existed in sports and a way out of it was to change the mindsets of people towards women players.
Leander Paes is 44 now, with a world record 43 doubles wins in Davis Cup to his credit.
Djokovic has struggled on the court this season as he deals with a right elbow problem that just won't seem to go away, even though he took the second half of last year off and then had a medical procedure in February.
Rafael Nadal hadn't played since the Australian Open quarterfinals because of a right hip injury, and was never challenged by the 34th-ranked Kohlschreiber at the bullring staging the clay-court tie in Valencia.
First, Isner beat Joris De Loore 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (8), 6-4, and Querrey followed with a straight sets victory, beating Ruben Bemelmans 6-1, 7-6 (5), 7-5 to put the US a victory away from reaching the semifinals.
Leander Paes, India's Davis Cup hero for years, was tied on 42 wins with Italian great Nicola Pietrangeli for long but finally surpassed him, albeit, in a foreign land.
The 44-year-old Paes is tied on 42 wins with Italian great Nicola Pietrangeli and one more win will make him the most successful doubles player in the history of Davis Cup.
The American had just won the biggest title of his 14-year career, holding every service game and rallying past Alexander Zverev in the finals.
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