Nadal and Djokovic power into fourth round

By Mark Lamport-Stokes

INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Spaniard Rafael Nadal stayed on course for his first ATP title of the year with a 6-1 6-3 demolition of American wildcard Donald Young in the Pacific Life Open third round on Monday.

The defending champion and second seed outplayed his 18-year-old opponent from the baseline, sealing victory in one hour, 22 minutes at Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

Third-seeded Serb Novak Djokovic also eased into the fourth round, crushing Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3 6-2, but fifth-seeded Spaniard David Ferrer was upset 7-6 6-7 7-6 by South Korea's Lee Hyung-taik.

"All matches are important for me, but especially here where I am defending my title because last year I played my best tournament here," Nadal, 21, said in a courtside interview.

"I didn't play my best tennis today, but I didn't play bad. I think he started very nervous. It was a comfortable match."

The muscular Spaniard, who beat Djokovic in last year's final, broke Young in the first, third and seventh games to blast through the opening set.

In a match between two left-handers, the world number two broke again in the sixth game of the second set when the American teenager hit a forehand long before serving out for the win.

Nadal, who piled up six ATP titles in his 2007 campaign including a third successive French Open, will next meet Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who beat fellow Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu 7-6 6-4.