Federer And Nadal Will Face Their First Tests

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will face their 2nd round opponents today.  Where Federer will face Denis Istomin, and he is leading head to head by 3-0 against him.  For Istomin it is looking impossible to defeat Federer and do huge early upset of the tournament.  Federer never lost before semi finals since 2003 at this tournament.  And he has an impressive record against low ranked players.  So it is expected that he will make short work of Istomin.  But taking his performance into consideration, Istomin may take advantage and provide him a tough challenge.  However he can not defeat him at such a stage.
Rafael Nadal's first opponent is home favourite Ryan Harrison.  It is their first meeting in the career.  For Ryan Harrison, the only hope is that, Rafael has not been playing on hard courts since last year's Miami.  And he can take full advantage of that defeciency of Rafael Nadal.  Recently Nadal has won two tournaments but these were on clay.  He is two time former champion of this tournament and very much optimistic about his return on hard courts.  He may struggle a little bit against American hope, but he can handle Ryan Harrison very well.  And he will win this match in straight sets comprehensively.  Ryan Harrison will create excitement but that will be of no use against the man of such a caliber like Nadal.