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Andy Murray will be joined by some of the worlds top players at the Monte Carlo Masters as the clay season begins on Sky Sports starting Monday.A ninth trophy for Nadal?Spains Rafael Nadal has a sensational record in the event having won an Open Era-record eight successive titles between 2005 and 2012. The Spaniards first Monte Carlo title win was against Guillermo Coria in 2005, but it has now been three years since he last won the tournament and has battled injury, form and confidence problems since his last triumph. Rafael Nadal will hope for a successful return to his favoured surface During his spectacular run, he won 46 successive matches including three finals against Roger Federer and two against Djokovic, but he lost his last final with the Serb here in 2013 and the formidable world No 1 is the defending champion as well as the winner of the first major and first two Masters events of the year.Who has defeated the King of the Clay?Nadal lost to Djokovic in both 2013 and 2015 while he suffered defeat to David Ferrer in 2014. Djokovic and Nadal cannot meet until the final after Saturdays draw His last final came in 2013 when Djokovic fought against the pain of an ankle injury to record victory.In 2015, Djokovic went on to have one of his best years, defeating Nadal in Monte Carlo again, this time in a comfortable 6-3 6-3 semi-final success. Djokovic in stunning form against Nadal hitting four straight winners Federer seeks to fill gap?Despite reaching the Monte Carlo final four times, Federer yet to emerge victorious - losing to Nadal three times before a 2014 final defeat to fellow Swiss Stan Warwinka. Roger Federer returns from injury in Monte Carlo Federer had beaten Djokovic in the semi-finals before his defeat and the Swiss ace will be making his first return since the Australian Open having being forced to withdraw from Miami with a stomach virus on his scheduled return from knee surgery.Murrays Miami DefeatAndy Murray will be looking to bounce back from a disappointing return from the North America Masters swing where he was an early casualty at both Indian Wells and Miami. Andy Murray will hope to put his disappointment in Miami behind him Murray has never won in Monte Carlo and could face clay-court specialist Guido Pella in a difficult second round encounter,Stan Wawrinka, Tomas Berdych, David Ferrer and Milos Raonic all make up the field for the first clay-court Masters event of 2016.Watch the Monte Carlo Masters live on Sky Sports between April 10-17. Coverage begins on Monday at 9.30am on Sky Sports 1 HD.By purchasing a Sky Sports Day Pass for £6.99 or Sky Sports Week Pass for £10.99, you can enjoy access to all seven Sky Sports channels and watch on a TV with a NOW TV Box or on a range of devices.Also See:Federers Monte Carlo returnTennis on SkyMaster of his tradeDjokovic wins in MiamiPierre Larouche Jersey . -- Tony Stewart is 20 pounds lighter and has a titanium rod in his surgically repaired right leg. Paul Coffey Jersey . 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Tim Horton Jersey .com) - The Calgary Flames aim to bounce back from their first regulation home loss of the campaign on Friday night when they host a Detroit Red Wings club that they swept in three meetings a season ago.India capped off an unbeaten run at the 4th Asian Champions Trophy with a 3-2 win in the final over defending champions Pakistan to win their second title in Kuantan, Malaysia on October 30. In the course of the round-robin matches, India had beaten Pakistan, Malaysia, Japan and China, while drawing their league match against Korea to top the group. In their semi-final, they came up against the Koreans and drew in regulation time again, before winning the shootout.Though this win will not impact Indias rankings in any way - India went into the tournament as the top-ranked Asian nation, their sixth position is the only one from Asia in the top ten at present - it was important for India to show their supremacy in the continent after having lost the 2012 final to Pakistan and then finishing fifth with a youth team in 2013.Here are the five reasons that made this Asian Champions Trophy win memorable.A final won without Sreejesh All of Indias podium finishes in recent years have owed a large part to PR Sreejesh, who first starred under the bar against Pakistan in the Asian Games final shootout in Incheon in 2014 to book Indias berth in the 2016 Rio Olympics. He was also instrumental in helping India win a bronze medal at the World League Final in 2015 against the Netherlands, as well as the silver medal finish in London at the 2016 Champions Trophy. In Kuantan, Sreejesh injured his ankle during the league phases and then reportedly tore a hamstring in the shootout win over Korea in the semi-final. It could be argued India may not have made it to the final without him in goal, but theres no taking credit away from India in winning the gold medal match without their most consistent performer across the last three years.The youngsters stood up to be counted Akash Chikte replicated Sreejeshs heroics with the starts he got; he had the company of livewires like Affan Yousuf, Lalit Upadhyay and Pardeep Mor who put in good performances right through the tournaments. Mor, in particular, was a revelation, as an attack-minded wing player who repeatedly made his way into the opposition half and created panic in their defence.dddddddddddd His work rate in falling back to help the defenders was admirable too.Sardar led by example in the knockouts When the league matches came to an end, it appeared Sardar Singh was a little unsure of his exact role in the team. After an unsuccessful experiment earlier in the year in Valencia as a forward, Sardar was tried out in defence in the first few matches of the Asian Champions Trophy, but the semi-final and final saw him being put into his favoured central-midfield role. He intercepted crucial passes, distributed the ball well and supplied the pass of the tournament against Pakistan, deep from the defensive third onto the stick of Ramandeep Singh, who slammed the ball across the face of goal and Affans touch put India 2-0 up.Asian flair with a European touch A common criticism of Indian hockey has been the emphasis on individual skills at the expense of defensive organization, but in Kuantan, India were efficient and scored from across the field, scoring 30 goals in seven matches. There were penalty-corners conversions, good individual goals, and several tip-ins executed by younger forwards like Affan and Lalit. These varied methods of scoring are normally associated with European countries like Germany, world champions Australia or even the newly-crowned Olympic champions Argentina.Killing a match off when on top of opponents One area of improvement would be converting an upper hand to closing out matches with greater ruthlessness, as they did against Japan and China. In the final, for example, India did all the running across the first two quarters and could have scored five or six goals if their forwards had been more efficient. If they could do it against the lower-ranked teams in the league stages, they must begin translating that mindset into matches involving teams of greater quality. ' ' '