Nadal marches on in Madrid

Rafael Nadal extended his flawless record on clay this season to 12-0 with a 6-3, 6-1 destruction of Nick Kyrgios.

Nadal dominated Kyrgios to beat the Australian in just over an hour.

"I played really well tonight. Right from the start I made very few errors," said the Spaniard.

"To win 6-3, 6-1 against an opponent as good as Nick, isn't normal."

The 14-time Grand Slam champion had a slice of fortune as a let cord and a Kyrgios double fault handed him the two breaks he needed to take the first set.

However, Kyrgios showed little resistence after being broken once more in the first game of the second set as he was whistled from at the end by Spanish fans unhappy at only seeing Nadal on court for 73 minutes.

And he admitted to having a defeatist attitude from the start.

"I wasn't expecting to beat him at all tonight, to be honest," said Kyrgios.

Nadal faces David Goffin in Friday's quarter-finals after the Belgian beat world number six Milos Raonic 6-4, 6-2.

After suffering his own struggles of late, Djokovic was encouraged by his display in seeing off Lopez and a partisan crowd to reach the last eight.

"If you're playing against a Spanish player in Madrid, it's obviously a different game, it's a different feeling," said Djokovic.

"They have a lot of support. You need to kind of hold your nerve, hold your concentration and use all the necessary energy at the right moments."

Djokovic faces a much tougher test on Friday against world number eight Kei Nishikori, who earlier swept aside David Ferrer 6-4, 6-3.