Pfupisa nyaya yacho:  Mutambi wepamusoro Kei Nishikori akatanga zvakanaka mukudzivirira zita rake reBarcelona Open nekukunda Teymuraz Gabashvili nemaseti akaenzana neChipiri. Nishikori wekuJapan akabuda achikunda mumutambo wechipiri mushure mekukunda muvengi wake wekuRussia 6-3 6-4. Mamwe makwikwi aya akazoenda kunotamba mufainari yechitatu aiva maviri evaSpanish - wechinomwe Roberto Bautista-Agut aine 6-3 6-4 kukunda Thomaz Bellucci wekuBrazil, uye wechipfumbamwe Tommy Robredo, mukwikwidzi wa2004 uyo akahwina 6-3 6-2 kukunda Mikhail Kukushkin wekuKazakhstan. Kei Nishikori uyo akasarudzwa kuva mutambi mukuru akatanga zvakanaka kuti adzivirire zita rake paBarcelona Open nekukunda mumaseti maviri. Nishikori yekuJapan yakabuda ichikunda mumutambo wechipiri mushure mekubvisa Teymuraz Gabashvili. Nishikori anopemberera mushure mokukunda Gabashvili mukati mezuva rechipiri reBarcelona Open. Mutambi wenhabvu wenguva sere Rafael Nadal achatamba kekutanga mumakwikwi egore rino achirwisana nemumwe wake wekuSpain, Nicolas Almagro, uyo akarwisana naPaolo Lorenzi mumutambo wavo wekutanga, uyo wakapera nguva isati yakwana mutambi uyu wekuItaly paakasiya mutambo uyu mushure memitambo mitatu. Zvakare mumutambo wekutanga neChipiri, Albert Montanes akagadzira musangano nemumwe mudiwa wemba David Ferrer - wechitatu wembeu - nekukunda Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis 1-6 6-4 7-5. Fernando Verdasco uyo akaberekerwa muMadrid muna 2010 akadonha kunze kwemakwikwi aya achipikisana naAndrey Rublev. Dominican Victor Estrella Burgos akakunda Dominic Thiem wekuAustria 6-3 7-6 (7/3) kuti aenderere mberi kumusangano neCroatia yechina mbeu Marin Cilic. Mumwe muSpanish acharatidza muchikamu chechipiri ndiFeliciano Lopez, anotora Marsel Ilhan mushure mekukunda kweTurkey 7-6 (7/2) 3-6 6-1 vachipesana naJames Ward weGreat Britain. Asi mukwikwidzi weMadrid akazvarwa 2010 Fernando Verdasco apedza kutora chikamu mushure mekurasikirwa 7-6 (7/4) 6-3 kumunhu weRussia Andrey Rublev.
Kei Nishikori wokuJapan akabuda achikunda mumutambo wechipiri. Akakunda mukwikwidzi wake wokuRussia mumaseti 6-3 6-4 muBarcelona. Mutambo wokutanga waRafael Nadal uchange uri wokurwisa mumwe wake wekuSpain anonzi Nicolas Almagro.