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Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray are all in action on Thursday at the Madrid Open, live on Sky Sports 3 HD.Murrays Masters route Plotting Murrays route to glory in Madrid Murray beat Radek Stepanek in three sets on Tuesday and in game that will have blown away the cobwebs after a few weeks off following his run to the semi-finals in Monte Carlo he will have been pleased to pick up the match practice.The British No 1 and world No 2 begins Thursdays action against Gilles Simon. Murray boasts a 13-2 record in the head-to-head with the Frenchman, including their last meeting in the Davis Cup last year. Andy Murray says the conditions and shots produced by Radek Stepanek made his win over the Czech at the Madrid Masters very tough However, Simon saw off Murray in straight sets in Rotterdam last season, the last time the pair met on the ATP Tour, victory ending a run of 12 straight wins for Murray.On clay, it is Murray who also has the clear advantage winning all five of their meetings since losing in Rome in 2007, including the Madrid final in 2008 where the Scot won in straight sets.Murray is up in the first match of the day and will be followed on the main show court by world No 1 Novak Djokovic, who faces Spains Roberto Bautista Agut and in-form Rafa Nadal, who faces American Sam Querrey. Madrid Open - Last 16 Top Half Novak Djokovic (1) v Roberto Bautista Agut (15) Milos Raonic (11) v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (7) Nick Kyrgios v Pablo Cuevas Richard Gasquet (10) v Kei Nishikori (6) Bottom Half Rafa Nadal (5) v Sam Querrey Jack Sock v Joao Sousa Tomas Berdych (8) v David Ferrer (9) Gilles Simon (16) v Andy Murray (2) One to WatchTomas Berdych has surprisingly yet to reach a final this year, with the usual mix of quarter and semi-final runs in his campaign to date.The world No 8 from the Czech Republic has also only won one Masters title in Paris way back in 2005, having lost his last three finals at 1000 level.However, he looked in good touch when seeing off Denis Istomin on Wednesday and his match with David Ferrer has an intriguing look with Ferrer working his way back to his best form. Ferrer has an 8-5 advantage in the head-to-head and is ranked just one place behind Berdych - so with nothing between the players we can expect a cracker to be the pick of Thursdays proceedings.The Spaniard has been taken to the limit in his two matches so far this week and like Berdych has just one Masters title to his name (also Paris in 2012) - only one man will have the chance of a second this week.Surprise in StoreOn paper there is not much between Richard Gasquet and Kei Nishikori and we could easily have put this battle between world No 12 and world No 6 in the one-to-watch section.However, on closer inspection, Gasquet has a 6-0 advantage in the head-to-head between the pair so we are tipping the Frenchman to cause a surprise despite Nishikoris impressive clay-court form.Nick Kyrgios and Pablo Cuevas have both caused upsets of their own on route to the last 16 and they clash in what should be an entertaining battle between two unseeded players, Kyrgios is likely to start as favourite but Cuevas is a lively danger and already has two clay-court titles under his best this season 2016 ATP Masters 1000 winners Indian Wells Novak Djokovic Miami Novak Djokovic Monte Carlo Rafa Nadal In Case You Missed ItKei Nishikori survived a scare to come through in three sets against Fabio Fognini, but Stan Wawrinkas form showed no signs of returning as he was beaten by 7-6 7-6 by Nick Kyrgios.And world No 1 Novak Djokovic put his second round defeat in Monte Carlo behind, on his first outing since losing to Jiri Vesely he came though in straight sets against Croatian teenager Borna Coric.You can follow all of Thursdays action at the Madrid Open from 11am on Sky Sports 3.Also See:Djokovic back with victoryWATCH: Tomic the tank engineMurrays Masters routeMasters of their tradeAir Max 270 Sale Canada . 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Brestyan needed to be sure Raisman was serious, so he put the three-time Olympic medalist through countless hours of cardio and plyometrics in 2014 designed to test her desire as much as her physical limits.If you dont control the body, the frustration is coming very fast, Brestyan said. You cant do this. You cant do that. Pain here. Pain there. I didnt want to deal with the mind before I dealt with the body.So Raisman pushed herself to the point of exhaustion -- and sometimes beyond -- while fighting a two-front internal battle: her fear of taking risks and her fear of failure in a seemingly chronic push-pull for supremacy. Heres the thing, though, the thing Brestyan knew the second Raisman walked back into the gym and told him she was ready: Raismans fear of failure always wins. Always.You cant tell her she cant do something, Brestyan said.And Brestyan also understood there was one more chip in play. Raismans performance in London four years ago -- gold in team and floor exercise, bronze on beam -- opened doors for her she never saw coming, including a spot on Dancing With The Stars and a series of endorsement deals. Theres no telling what another breakthrough moment in front of the world could lead to.The fame is going fast, Brestyan said. In the gymnastics world youre famous for one year then you become like everybody else. She feels she did not accomplish the maximum she can do, so the pleasure of doing gymnastics and the pleasure of being famous, this is what brings her back. She likes to be famous.Its a byproduct of Raismans relentless drive, one that has the 22-year-old back on the Olympic stage for the loaded U.S. womens team. The young woman that 16-year-old teammate Laurie Hernandez occasionally calls grandma may also be the best gymnast on the planet not named Simone Biles.Raisman, Biles and defending Olympic champion Gabby Douglas will all compete in the all-around when womens preliminary competition begins on Sunday, a prospect that hardly seemed possible as recently as this spring when Raisman appeared lost, her confidence shaken following a forgettable meet in Italy where she finished sixth overall and fifth among the Americans.Yet there she was during podium training on Thursday, drilling Amanar vaults with precision while cementing her spot as the third all-around entry along with three-time world champion Biles and Douglas. The top eight teams qualify for Tuesday nights team final, with the top 24 individual finishers earning a spot in the all-around final next Thursday.That list, however, comes with one very impportant caveat: only two gymnasts per country can make the cut.ddddddddddddSo while all three Americans should wind up in the top 10, the rules dictate one of them will be watching from the stands during the finals. The margin of error is extremely thin and Raisman has seen both sides up close.Four years ago she and Douglas edged good friend and reigning world champion Jordyn Wieber during preliminaries, leaving Wieber in tears afterward. Last fall at the world championships, Raisman struggled during qualifying and wound up being the odd one out while Biles and Douglas went on to go one-two in the finals. This time it was Raisman who couldnt mask her disappointment, apologizing repeatedly to national team coordinator Martha Karolyi even as the Americans rolled to a team title.Raisman buried herself even deeper in her work, though the initial returns were hardly promising. When she slogged to sixth at the Jesolo Cup in March, it seemed her odds of making an Olympic return were diminishing by the day. During the Secret Classic in June, Karolyi required Raisman to do the all-around while Biles and Douglas took on a lighter workload to help save them for the grind to come.The message from Karolyi couldnt have been more obvious: it was time for Raisman to get it together. And just like that, she did.Raisman was second at U.S. championships and a close third behind Hernandez at trials. There was no secret formula. There never is when it comes to Raisman. Her answer to adversity is always the same: work until youre gassed then drag yourself to your feet and work some more.I did like eight million routines, she said.Each one whittling away at the small mistakes that can save a tenth here or two-tenths there, particularly on uneven bars, easily her weakest event. Its no small feat for an admitted perfectionist who struggles at times to let missteps go.In that way shes leaned on Biles, who will occasionally stop talking in mid-sentence to dart down the runway for one of her ceiling-scraping, judge-confounding vaults.Ive found that the less I think and the more I just trust myself the better, Raisman said. Thats what Marthas really been working on with me and its been helping a lot.This is Raismans last round. Probably. She laughed when someone suggested she stick around until Tokyo, joking Brestyan couldnt handle another four years by her side. So shell drink in the moment, unleash a couple more of her physics-defying tumbling runs and embrace her role as the worlds youngest grandma.They can call me whatever they want, she said. I just wanted to be on this team more than anything. ' ' '