The seven-time Wimbledon champion swept past the 772nd-ranked lefthander 6-0, 6-3, 6-4 in a match played under the Centre Court roof on a rainy day at the All England Club.
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Around 22,000 tickets will go on sale on Ticketmaster at 3pm on a first come, first-served basis.
This year is also the 25th anniversary of “People’s Sunday”, the first Middle Sunday programme the tournament ever scheduled.
Because of rain, play has been called off for the rest of Wednesday on all courts except Centre Court.
In another break from tradition, all tickets will be sold in advance, with none available on the day.
They were a total of 78 matches behind schedule on Friday night, which was the reason the decision was made, together with an uncertain forecast for yesterday.
Play may take place at Wimbledon this Sunday, organisers said, after scheduling delays built up over the first five days of what has been a rain-ravaged tournament.
There is tennis being played at Wimbledon – on one court, anyway.
Only one minute of action was possible on the outside courts on Friday and just a quarter of an hour on Court One with a resumption not expected before 3:00pm (1400 GMT).
After rainfall robbed spectators of four hours of play on Tuesday, the start time on Wednesday was delayed by 15 minutes.
The roof on Centre Court, however, was closed to allow play to start.
Members of the ground staff remove the covers from the courts as rain delays play on day five of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Friday, July 1, 2016.
“A couple years ago I was scheduled to play Feliciano Lopez in the third round on Saturday, and I wanted to play him on Saturday because he was really exhausted”.
Asked why there were fewer people at SW19, a spokesman for the All England Club said: “It’s absolutely the weather”. Normally, Friday and Saturday are for third-round matches.
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He then had to play his second round match on a rain-free Thursday against Romanian qualifier Radu Albot, winning in four sets to set up a third round clash with another Spaniard, Roberto Bautista-Agut.
