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This is certainly not a fun opener for Nishikori. Yes, Almagro is just coming back from an injury, but he has troubled Nishikori a lot in the past. Beat him in their most recent meeting, on Nishikori's home soil of Tokyo in 2013, 7-6(2) 5-7 6-3 and two years earlier Nishikori managed to just scrape by 6-7(5) 6-4 6-4.