ATP Tokyo – Del Potro, Tipsarevic, Lopez and Nishikori come from set down

This Tuesday some of the best players at Tokyo had a difficult start losing the first set and needed to recover from set down

Juan Martin Del Potro overcame an inspired Marcos Baghdatis. The player from Cyprus served at great level with 17 aces, however DelPo managed to recover and keep himself alive in this competition. The Argentinean is the number 1 seed at Tokyo and will face in the second round his fellow countryman Carlos Berlocq.

Janko Tipsarevic has struggled in the last months and is now out of top 20. The Serbian faced Victor Hanescu and lost the first set after a close one decided in the breaker (6 – 8 in the tie break). Janko reacted very well after disappointing first set and took the second with expressive 6 – 1. Things got mental in the third and Tipsarevic proved to be better saving all three break points and claiming the victory with 6 – 4.

Feliciano Lopez faced Japanese Wild Card Tatsuma Ito and had a hard time in the first set, the Spanish only got 37% first serve in and was broken two times by Ito. Feli improved his service level and was able to hold all his service games after the first set firing a total of 18 aces to get a place in the second round.

Home favorite and defending champion Kei Nishikori also had to battle to book a place in next stage. The Japanese lost first set in the tie break against Jurgen Melzer, but managed to repeat this year triumph in Madrid against the Austrian. After a close first set (7 – 5), Nishikori cruised into victory with a 6 – 2 result in the third and decisive set.