Rafael Nadal may be fit to return for World Tour Masters finals in London Speaking to Fox Sports, the man universally known as Uncle Toni claimed that "in 15 days, Rafa will resume training, in time for him to aim to play in the Masters [ie the World Tour Finals] and the final of the Davis Cup." "I hope you see me in Australia [in January]," said Nadal last month. That is the biggest goal for me, to come back just before then in Qatar, but I cannot say for sure it is going to happen. I want to be 100 per cent when I come back. Meanwhile, Andy Murray is easing into his work in Tokyo, where he posted the simplest of victories against Slovakia's Lukas Lacko on Wednesday. Murray lost only two of the first 22 points as he sprinted through a 56-minute match. The scoreline had a one-sided look at the end: 6-1, 6-2. In Thursday's quarter-finals of the Japan Open, Murray will play Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka. This match is unlikely to be so much of a gimme, as Wawrinka is the world No 16. He also has the distinction of being the last man to beat Murray in the first week of a Grand Slam, at the 2010 US Open. How things have changed. During this year's US Open - which he won to claim his first major title - Murray had to battle a variety of conditions from sapping heat to gale-force winds. As he told an interviewer this week, he was able to come up with an answer to every challenge, even though he felt he had played far better tennis during the Olympics. "It wasn't always easy to serve well or to hit the ball cleanly from the back of the court [in New York]," Murray told The Independent. But I found a way to win the matches, even when I wasn't playing well.