Nadal bids for Rome title with possible Djokovic clash looming

A slow start from Nishikori. In contrast to Djokovic's comments, it looked like Nishikori was trying to pace himself and win easy, but Troicki proved no walk-over and Nishikori blew the first set serving at 5-6 rather than taking it to a tie-break.

I expect he'll play with more intent in the first set of his next match, and hopefully we'll get to see a QF with #2 Federer (and perhaps another SF with #1 Djokovic if #6 Nishikori is good enough).