Country number two Roger Federer suffered a beginning defeat at the continuous Madrid Masters tournament on Thursday, a day after top-ranked Novak Djokovic exited the tournament also with a early round loss.
Kei Nishikori involving Japan stunned the safeguarding champion 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 in the third round of This town Masters.
"He was my idol. Actually, to beat him, that was considered one of my goals for my own tennis career, " stated Nishikori. "It happens with clay and it's fantastic. It's not really my own favourite surface. "
"I wasn't really wanting this, " said Nishikori. "6-2 within the third, that's not painless against him. I enjoyed well. I was some more tight of course, but he didn't generate many first serves with the third set and I was able to attack his second. I was a lot more aggressive in the next set. I'm pretty happy the best way I played. "
Federer was just using his first tournament in nearly two months, since he lost to be able to rival Rafael Nadal with the Indian Wells quarterfinals. He won the Madrid title against Tomas Berdych at the controversial blue claycourts. The courts have become back to red clay.
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