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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. 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Yorkshire 156 for 6 (Williamson 48, Ballance 33) beat Warwickshire 154 (Porterfield 48, Evans 37) by two runsScorecard Yorkshire Vikings recorded a remarkable victory over Birmingham Bears to keep their T20 Blast hopes alive after the visitors collapsed dramatically in the final overs.Having been set 157 to win by at Headingley, Birmingham looked set to move to within a point of North Group leaders Northamptonshire with victory when they required 16 to win from 13 balls with six wickets in hand.But David Willey and Tim Bresnan bowled superbly at the death before Adam Lyths acrobatic fielding on the boundary denied Ateeq Javid the boundary needed off the final ball to tie a topsy-turvy encounter.Despite a huge six from Lyth in Rikki Clarkes opening over, Yorkshire struggled to find the boundary in their six-over powerplay after winning the toss as the Birmingham seamers restricted them to just five boundaries.The frustration got the better of both Lyth and Willey, with the pair both being caught in the ring off the bowling of former Yorkshire paceman Oliver Hannon-Dalby as the hosts fell to 34 for 2 early on.Captain Alex Lees offered some resistance with 23 before being bowled by leg-spinner Josh Poysden, leaving senior duo Kane Williamson and Gary Ballance to rebuild through the middle overs.The pair added 78 for the fourth wicket from just 59 balls before Ballance - who was celebrating his recall to the England Test squad to face Pakistan next week - was bowled for 33 by Clarke in the 18th over.Williiamson followed him back to the dug-out after running himself out for 48 in the final over, but some lusty blows from Bresnan and Jack Leaning lifted the Vikings to a total of 156 for six.dddddddddddd Hannon-Dalby proved to be the pick of the bowlers, taking two for 33 from his four overs.Birminghams reply got off to the worst possible start as Sam Hain was adjudged LBW after attempting to shoulder arms to Willeys first legal delivery, but the Bears recovered thanks to a 50-partnership between Ian Bell and William Porterfield.The former hit four fours on his way to 30 from 26 deliveries, but he fell victim to Adil Rashid in the leg-spinners first over as he advanced down the wicket and was stumped by Andrew Hodd.And the England limited overs star was not finished there as he removed Australia wicketkeeper Matthew Wade for just six on his Blast debut with Lees taking a simple catch at backward point.A stand of 60 between Laurie Evans (37) and Porterfield (48) looked to have swung the game back in Birminghams favour, but their departures sparked an almighty collapse that left Javid needing to hit a four from Bresnans final ball to force a tie.His aerial drive over mid-on looked to have done the trick, only for Lyth to stretch his body over the boundary to drag the ball back inside the rope and force a run out as Birmingham lost their final six wickets for 13 runs in 13 balls. 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