Nadal, Djokovic, Nishikori power on; Osaka crashes out in Rome

Kei was surely going to lose this one I thought as I changed channels. But wow, what a come-back!

(Hard to find even a brief mention of him in this article though... .)

I watched the second and third sets (after finishing my own tennis practice :), I also thought that Nishikori was done in the third. My impression was that he was not moving very well, a bit late on the ball, and going too often to the net for his skills. But he fought back beautifully, took back the break, and Dimitrov crashed under the pressure. He has to do something about that backhand, once he is under stress he misses a lot, and Nishikori smartly used that.