[*bunny*]

Rome qualifying draw:

[1] NISHIKORI, Kei JPN vs 2 GONZALEZ, Maximo ARG
DEL BONIS, Federico ARG vs GABASHVILI, Teymuraz

Official site:
http://it.internazionalibnlditalia.com/


Madrid main draw:

[3]Federer v Bye
Raonic v Lopez
Qualifier v Malisse
Lu v [15]Verdasco
[10]Almagro v Tsonga
Nishikori v Qualifier
Dolgopolov v Giraldo
Bye v [5]Soderling

Official site:
http://www.madrid-open.com/


Belgrads main draw:

[3] GARCIA-LOPEZ, Guillermo ESP vs BYE
KUKUSHKIN, Mikhail KAZ vs DEVVARMAN, Somdev IND
ZVEREV, Mischa GER vs SELA, Dudi ISR
NISHIKORI, Kei JPN vs [7] TIPSAREVIC, Janko SRB

Full draw: http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2011/5053/mds.pdf

Official site: http://www.serbiaopen.rs/



Barcelona main draw:

[12]Garcia Lopez vs Istomin
F. Lopez vs Kukushkin
Nishikori vs Riba
[5]Berdych vs bye

Full draw: http://www.barcelonaopenbancsabadell...6-&AID=3176246

Official site: http://www.barcelonaopenbancsabadell.com/



Houston main draw:

[1]M. FISH [1] vs BYE
RAMOS, Albert ESP vs DABUL, Brian ARG
ANDREEV, Igor RUS vs RUSSELL, Michael USA
QUALIFIER vs[6] NISHIKORI, Kei JPN

Full draw:
http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2011/717/mds.pdf

Official site:
http://www.mensclaycourt.com/

[*bunny*]

A tough draw... winner of Andreev vs Russell will be both very good on clay, and the qualifying draw includes the likes of Karlovic and Chucho...

But gambette, Kei!! You can do it!

[*bunny*]

Kei's R1 opponent is Croat Franco Skugor.
He beat Witten, Yo and Bogolomov Jr to qualify.

Here's OOP for Tuesday.

COURT 3
Matches start at 11 a.m.

Robert KENDRICK (USA) vs Somdev DEVVARMAN (IND)
Tim SMYCZEK (USA) vs Ryan SWEETING (USA)
Franco SKUGOR (CRO) vs Kei NISHIKORI (JPN)
Benjamin BECKER (GER)/Benjamin BECKER (GER) vs John ISNER (USA)/Sam QUERREY (USA)
Ryan HARRISON (USA)/Ryan SWEETING (USA) vs Travis RETTENMAIER (USA)/Horacio ZEBALLOS (ARG)

Good luck, Kei!!

[chewy]

Thanks bunny, I hope Kei can at least win the 1st round here.

Off to bed, gonna try and wake up around 5am to watch the match

[chewy]

Amazing, woke up just in time...had fallen asleep without setting my alarm.

Kei hold to love 1-0!

[chewy]

Kei *1-1

easy service game for both to start things off

[chewy]

Looks like a beautiful place to play tennis

Kei 2-1*

[chewy]

2 bps for Kei...1 saved...big fh dtl, deuce...game Skugor 2-2

Streams lagging a bit now :-(

[chewy]

Kei *40-15, he holds and lead 3-2

[chewy]

Awww...the stream's down...

[chewy]

Kei 4-2*...*5-2...5-3*

Serving for the set, 6-3 Kei wins the 1st set!

[chewy]

found another stream

Kei holds to love for 5-1. 2nd set

He's moving well today

[chewy]

GSM Kei won 6-3 6-2!

[*bunny*]

Yay!
Yattane, Kei!

Thanx chewy for updates!

Hope he will fare better against Igor this time. Sure Igor is tough on clay but Kei also has repeatedly said clay is his most favourite surface.

[chewy]

Yeah I'm looking forward to it too, it's building up to an interesting battle.

I can get some "normal" rest tonight, hopefully it's scheduled earlier than his last match.