Juan Martin Del Potro – Kei Nishikori

Kei Nishikori (9 ATP)

The Japanese player encountered some medical problems last week in Madrid when he was forced to retire before the Novak Djokovic duel in the quarterfinals.

After that, Kei went to Rome, where he achieved his third consecutive success in front of David Ferrer (30 ATP), with the score of 7-5, 6-2.

An excellent season for Nishikori, which has already played two finals in Brisbane (defeat to Grigor Dimitrov) and Buenos Aires (defeat at Aleksandr Dolgopolov). Besides these two results, the athlete from Japan also managed two-quarter finals, Miami and Indian Wells, plus Madrid, which he did not play.

Juan Martin Del Potro (34 ATP)

Without too many games played this season, Delpo came to Rome after his brief run from Estoril. In that competition, he passed in the first round of Yuichi Sugita (77 ATP), but he did not even play in the second round, being forced to abandon to return to Argentina for his grandfather’s funeral.

In Rome, the South American player managed to pass the first round of Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (11 ATP), with the score 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. In the next round, he had a much easier mission to the British Kyle Edmund (53 ATP), which he defeated with the score of 7-5, 6-4