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Paris, France (Sports Network) - Seven-time champion Rafael Nadal surprisingly needed four sets to win his first-round match Monday, while oft-injured Frenchman Gael Monfils upended fifth seed Tomas Berdych on Day 2 at the French Open. The reigning three-time winner and third-seeded Nadal had his hands full with 6-foot-5 Daniel Brands, but the clay-court king from Spain fought back to beat his German counterpart 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, 6-3 in 2 hours, 54 minutes on Court Chatrier at Stade Roland Garros. Brands was up a set and led 3-0 in the second-set tiebreak before Nadal mounted his comeback. The Spanish great won seven of the final eight points in the tiebreak and handled things from there. Playing his first Grand Slam match in 11 months, Nadal broke Brands three times, while the German settled for only one break in defeat on a day when he was both striking the ball really well and serving big. The 11-time Grand Slam singles titlist and former world No. 1 Nadal beat current top-ranked star Novak Djokovic in last years French Open finale. Nadal is now a brilliant 37-2 this year, including trips into finals in all eight of his events and 16 straight wins on clay. The mighty Mallorcan is seeking his seventh title of the season. Nadals second-round opponent will be promising Slovak Martin Klizan. In the match of the day, the 81st-ranked Monfils went the distance to oust the former Wimbledon runner-up Berdych 6-7 (8-10), 4-6, 7-6 (7-6), 7-6 (7-4), 7-5 in 4 hours, 3 minutes. The big-hitting affair featured 26 aces by the winner and only one service break by Berdych. Monfils broke his fellow former French Open semifinalist three times en route to the big victory. The 26-year-old former top-10 star Monfils, who was a clay-court runner-up in Nice this past weekend, appeared in the quarterfinals in his last trip to Roland Garros two years ago. Meanwhile, sixth-seeded French crowd favorite and former Australian Open runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga drilled helpless Slovenian Aljaz Bedene 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 and seventh-seeded French star Richard Gasquet erased Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-1, 6-4, 6-3. In other action involving top-16 seeds, No. 10 Marin Cilic of Croatia whipped German Philipp Petzschner 6-1, 6-2, 6-3, struggling No. 11 Spaniard Nicolas Almagro overcame Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, and No. 13 Kei Nishikori of Japan crushed Canadian Jesse Levine 6-3, 6-2, 6-0. Italian Fabio Fognini, seeded 27th at this fortnight, defeated German Andreas Beck 6-3, 7-5, 6-3; 30th-seeded quality Frenchman Julien Benneteau held off Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7-5); Feliciano Lopez outlasted 31st-seeded fellow Spaniard Marcel Granollers 7-5, 2-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; and 32nd-seeded Spanish veteran Tommy Robredo cruised past Estonian Jurgen Zopp 6-3, 6-2, 6-1. American Ryan Harrison straight-setted Russian Andrey Kuznetsov 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) to move on. Some other opening-round winners were Klizan, Frances Edouard Roger-Vasselin, Czech Lukas Rosol, German Tobias Kamke, Dutchman Igor Sijsling, and 18-year- old Aussie Nick Kyrgios, who doused 34-year-old Czech Radek Stepanek 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (10-8), 7-6 (13-11). Alejandro Palacios Jersey . -- In one brief spurt, Brazil turned a close game into a rout and proved again it will be a strong World Cup favourite. Orbelin Pineda Mexico Jersey . Goals from Jerome Boateng, Franck Ribery and Thomas Mueller extended Bayerns unbeaten run to a record 37 matches. "This record is incredible," Bayern coach Pep Guardiola said. http://www.mexiconationalshop.us/ . LOUIS -- Lance Lynn was one of the more enthusiastic participants as the St. Diego Reyes Jersey . Brad Jacobs and his Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., team took control of the game early. Hirving Lozano Jersey . It is a cliché dragged out by fans and pundits regularly when discussions take place around which teams are better than others. LYNCHBURG, Va. -- Brock Gardner scored 18 points, Myo Baxter-Bell scored 16, grabbed 11 rebounds and made five assists, and Liberty never trailed in defeating Division III Clarks Summit 81-33 on Friday night to end a three-game skid.The Flames (5-6) shot 53.4 percent (31 of 58) from the floor and held the Defenders to 21.6 percent (11 of 51) despite losing leading scorer and rebounder Caleb Homesley to a season-ending injury against Princeton last Saturday.John Dawson scored 14 points with seven rebounds and Libberty outrebounded Clarks Summit 43-27, outscored them 38-6 in the paint and 13-0 on fast-break points.ddddddddddddLeading 32-21 at halftime, Liberty opened the second half with a 14-0 run in which Baxter-Bell scored seven points. The Defenders were scoreless for nearly seven minutes and Liberty cruised.Dontier Phelps led Clarks Summit with 15 points and freshman Kyron Jones added 12. ' ' '