The king of clay might have won the Mutua Madrid Open 2014 but people’s hearts were won by the Japanese Kei Nishikori, whose injury forced Rafa to get away with the Madrid crown. The Japanese is improving by leaps and bounds and yesterday, he broke into the top 10 of the Emirates ATP rankings. Rafa’s victory at Madrid was his 27th ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title and fourth in the Spanish capital after 2005, 2010 and 2013. It was Rafa’s third title this season after the ATP 250 event at 2014 Qatar ExxonMobil Open in January and the ATP 500 inaugural tournament at Rio de Janeiro in February.