Go! Rafa!

Rafa breezed his way past his first opponent - Go Soeda - in his opening match in the Rakuten Open by a 6-3, 6-2 scoreline.

Can't tell you anything about the match as all I saw were a few sneaky peeks at livescores at work, but Rafa had to face a break back point in the second set, so perhaps it wasn't all plain Rafa-sailing. He'll need to be on his toes a little better in his next match as he faces big serving Canadian, Milos Raonic.

Loving the purple though ...