Some early round results in Tokyo.

  • Nadal d Soeda 63 62
  • Raonic d Sugita 67 63 76
  • Giraldo d Haase 63 76
  • Gulbis d Kubot 63 36 75
  • Ito d Sela 64 36 63
  • Tomic d Troicki 76 76
  • Ferrer d Nishikori 64 63
  • Bogomolov d Nieminen 64 64

A little surprise with Ito, a Japanese wildcard, upsetting Dudi Sela.  Troicki upset by Bernard Tomic who doesn’t play a very complete schedule.  Raonic struggled against his first round opponent, Sugita, in three sets.  Probably won’t be able to bother Nadal that much if he struggled this much against Sugita.

The Murray brothers won their opening doubles.

In Beijing, some early round results

  • Tsonga d Dmitrov 76 75
  • Ferrero d. Bellucci 61 76
  • Granollers d Simon 63 61
  • Berdych d Melzer 75 75
  • Youzhny d Almagro 63 62

Simon lost pretty easily.  Melzer continues to lose early rounds perhaps showing last year was something of a fluke year.  Dmitrov still looking for a signature win.