PARIS, June 2 — Nikoloz Basilashvili gift-wrapped Rafael Nadal his easiest ever Grand Slam victory today and admitted his ability to win just one game was “quite embarrassing and quite disappointing”.

The 25-year-old Georgian slumped to a 6-0, 6-1, 6-0 defeat to the nine-champion in a ruthless dissection on Philippe Chatrier court.

It was nine-time champion Nadal’s most comfortable Grand Slam victory, edging out the two games he lost in a straight-sets romp over Juan Monaco in Paris in 2012.

“It’s quite disappointing and quite embarrassing, but I have to accept it,” said a downcast Basilashvili, the world number 63.

He had reached the third round with impressive wins over French 31st seed Gilles Simon and experienced Davis Cup winner Viktor Troicki.

But he was no match for Nadal who was playing in his 100th best-of-five sets match on clay courts.

Today’s romp took him to 98-2 in his career with his only two losses coming at Roland Garros.

“Perfection? I don’t know about that,” said Nadal, who turns 31 tomorrow.

Basilashvili hit just five winners and committed 34 unforced errors in his 90-minute horror show.

“He’s a much, much better player than I am obviously,” said the Georgian.

“And it’s going to take a lot of work if I want to play on centre court and play good match against him.

“Also, his game is something very difficult to handle and to come up with something from my game.”

“I have a lot of things to improve physically, mentally, and technical-wise also.”

Nadal will meet fellow Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut on Sunday for a place in the quarter-finals.

He defeated his compatriot in straight sets in their only other meeting in the semi-finals on clay in Madrid three years ago.

Nadal, who only lost 12 points on serve today, refused to gloat over Basilashvili’s predicament.

“I think I played great but at the beginning of the match he was not playing bad, and I was able to produce winners, to play with no mistakes, to play very long.

“Very high intensity in all the shots. Was a great match for me, no?”

Despite his 100th best-of-five sets clay court match and being confronted by his 31st birthday and talk of La Decima in Paris, the world number four admitted that he hasn’t always felt comfortable with numbers.

“Maths was the only subject that I failed in the last year at school. That doesn’t mean that the numbers don’t worry me now,” he said.

“Yeah, the numbers that I have on clay are important and I am very happy for all the things that happen to me in my whole my career.

“But this is not the moment to talk about that. Is the moment to talk about Roland Garros. That is the only thing now.” — AFP