KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- Rafael Nadal was eliminated Sunday in the third round of the Miami Open by fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6-4, 2-6, 6-3.
Nadal, who was seeded second, has never won the tournament in 11 appearances. It's the only event he hasn't won in so many attempts.
Verdasco, seeded 29th, lost the first 13 times he played Nadal but has now beaten him twice in a row. The other victory came in 2012 in Madrid.
Nadal converted only three of 12 break-point chances and committed 40 unforced errors, with just 18 winners.
Nadal dealt with several health issues in 2014 and said that while he's fully recovered, he hasn't regained his confidence.
"It's a question of being relaxed enough to play well," the 14-time Grand Slam champion said. "I'm still playing with too much nerves for a lot of moments, in important moments, still playing a little bit anxious in those moments.
"But I'm going to fix it -- I don't know if in one week, in six months, or in one year, but I'm going to do it."
Andy Murray's 499th career victory put him into the fourth round.
The No. 3-seeded Murray beat Santiago Giraldo 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday, and one more win will give him a milestone achieved by 45 other men in the Open era.
"It's nice, because when you see the list of the players that have won that many matches, there isn't loads," Murray said. "I obviously want to try and win more and hopefully still have quite a few years ahead of me left to add to that number."
Eight active men have at least 500 wins. Murray's career record is 499-155, and he will next face No. 15-seeded Kevin Anderson.
Murray, who won this tournament in 2009 and 2013, is seeking his first title this year. Against Giraldo, Murray lost only four points on his first serve and was broken just once -- the first time he served for the match.
"Giraldo came out and started swinging a bit toward the end of the match and made it a little bit tricky," Murray said, "but I thought for the most part I played very well."
Giraldo, seeded No. 27, fell to 1-22 against top-10 opponents.
Anderson hit 12 aces and beat No. 24 Leonardo Mayer 6-4, 6-4. A South African, Anderson lives an hour north of Key Biscayne; Murray, a Scotsman, has a home in Miami.
That makes their match an all-Florida affair of sorts.
"Kevin obviously is used to these conditions here," Murray said. "He obviously plays and practices in this weather a lot, so I won't have as much of an advantage against him as maybe some of the guys."
The tournament was already without Roger Federer, who skipped the event. With Nadal's elimination, four-time champion Novak Djokovic and Murray are now heavy favorites to make the final.
American Jack Sock lost to Dominic Thiem 6-4, 6-3.