PARIS: Seven-time champion Rafael Nadal looks to celebrate his 27th birthday on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) by reaching the French Open quarterfinals, while world No. 1 Novak Djokovic faces up to a ghost of the past.

Nadal, bidding to be the first man to win the same Grand Slam title eight times, plays Kei Nishikori who is trying to become just the second Japanese man to reach the last eight after Jiro Satoh, who made the quarter-finals in 1931 and 1933.

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