Kei Nishikori decided not to play Monte Carlo because he did not want to play five straight weeks on clay courts. But the world No. 5 is playing Barcelona this week, and will also play Madrid and Rome.
After an injury marred 2014, Nadal was more upbeat about it being a great start to the 2015 clay court season than his loss yesterday to Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic wins the emphatic battle of tennis against the eight time monte-carlo champion Rafael Nadal ,when the duo met at the Monte Carlo Masters semi-final.