Fourth seed Marin Cilic’s Rakuten Japan Open Championships 2016 campaign is off on the right foot after downing last year's finalist Benoit Paire on Monday. Cilic raced through the opening set in only 20 minutes, but the Frenchman rebounded strongly before succumbing 6-0, 4-6, 6-3 in one hour and 49 minutes. Cilic reached the quarter-finals in Tokyo last season before falling to home favourite Kei Nishikori. He will bid to reach his ninth ATP World Tour quarter-final of the season when he next faces Spaniard Fernando Verdasco. [ALSO LIKE] Paire, who defeated Nick Kyrgios and Nishikori en route to last year’s final, slipped to 1-2 in his FedEx ATP Head2Head series with Cilic, whose superior firepower proved telling on Monday. The Croatian...
Race To London Continues In Beijing, Tokyo: The Asian circuit on the ATP World Tour continues with 500 level tournaments, the China Open in Beijing and the Rakuten Japan Open in Tokyo. They are two of the 13 ATP World Tour 500 events. Sixteen of the Top 20 players in the Emirates ATP Race To London are in action. In Beijing, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Milos Raonic are the top three seeds. In Tokyo, Kei Nishikori, Gael Monfils and Tomas Berdych are the top trio. Murray has already secured a spot in the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London. Raonic is fourth, Nishikori fifth, Monfils sixth, Nadal eighth and Berdych ninth in the Emirates ATP Race To London....