Ka taƙaita labarin:  Mai tsaron gida Kei Nishikori ya samu nasarar fara kare kambun Barcelona Open dinsa tare da cin nasara a kan Teymuraz Gabashvili a ranar Talata. Nishikori na Japan ya fito da nasara daga wasan zagaye na biyu bayan ya gamu da abokin hamayyarsa na Rasha 6-3 6-4. Sauran zuriyar da suka ci gaba zuwa zagaye na uku duka 'yan Spain ne - zuriya ta bakwai Roberto Bautista-Agut tare da nasara 6-3 6-4 a kan Thomaz Bellucci na Brazil, kuma zuriya ta tara Tommy Robredo, zakaran 2004 wanda ya yi nasara 6-3 6-2 a kan Mikhail Kukushkin na Kazakhstan. Mai tsaron gida Kei Nishikori ya yi nasarar fara kare kambun Barcelona Open dinsa da nasarar da ya samu a raga. Nishikori na Japan ya fito da nasara daga wasan zagaye na biyu bayan ya kashe Teymuraz Gabashvili. Nishikori ya yi murna bayan ya doke Gabashvili a rana ta biyu ta gasar Barcelona Open. Gasar farko ta Rafael Nadal mai nasara sau takwas a gasar ta wannan shekara za ta kasance karo na biyu tare da ɗan ƙasar Spain Nicolas Almagro, wanda gwagwarmayar zagaye na farko da Paolo Lorenzi ya ƙare da wuri lokacin da Italiyanci ya yi ritaya bayan wasanni uku. Hakanan a zagaye na farko a ranar Talata, Albert Montanes ya shirya ganawa da abokin wasan gida David Ferrer - na uku - ta hanyar doke Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis 1-6 6-4 7-5. Fernando Verdasco wanda aka haifa a Madrid a shekarar 2010 ya fadi daga gasar da Andrey Rublev. Dominican Victor Estrella Burgos ya doke Dominic Thiem na Austria 6-3 7-6 (7/3) don ci gaba zuwa ganawa da Marin Cilic na hudu na Croatia. Wani dan Spain da zai bayyana a zagaye na biyu zai kasance na biyar Feliciano Lopez, yana fuskantar Marsel Ilhan bayan nasarar da Turkiyya ta samu ta 7-6 (7/2) 3-6 6-1 a kan James Ward na Burtaniya. Amma haifaffen dan wasan Madrid Fernando Verdasco na shekara ta 2010 ya gama halarta bayan ya yi rashin nasara 7-6 (7/4) 6-3 ga dan wasan Rasha Andrey Rublev.
Kei Nishikori na Japan ya fito da nasara daga zagaye na biyu. Ya doke abokin hamayyarsa na Rasha a cikin saiti 6-3 6-4 a Barcelona. Wasan farko na Rafael Nadal zai kasance ne da dan kasar Spain Nicolas Almagro.