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The Indian could convert just one of the six break points he created while he saved six of the eight break points he faced in the one-hour-30-minute contest.
The world's top players have assembled for the ATP Cup and are using the event to prepare for the year's first Grand Slam, which starts in Melbourne from January 20.
Prajnesh Gunneswaran made a winning start to the 2020 season but Ramkumar Ramanathan exited from the Apis Canberra International following a first-round defeat.
Untested doubles pairing Alex De Minaur and Nick Kyrgios scored a nail-biting 3-6, 6-3, 18-16 victory for Australia in the decider.
The ATP Cup will see 24 nations split into six groups across three Australian cities, with eight teams emerging from the round-robin to compete in a knockout phase until one country is left standing.
Nadal had to twice fight back from a break down against the Japanese world number 72 in the opening set before winning the tiebreaker.
The world number two blasted the top-ranked Spaniard off court 6-2, 7-6 (7/4) after world number 10 Roberto Bautista Agut caned Serbia's Dusan Lajovic 7-5, 6-1 in the other singles.
Alexander Zverev and Stefanos Tsitsipas both crashed to defeat in their first matches of the year Friday as day one of the inaugural ATP Cup sprung some big upsets.
The Bryans, 42, captured a professional era record 119 titles together, including 16 Grand Slams, 39 ATP Masters 1000s and the ATP Finals title four times.
The next WTA tournaments start on April 20 in Stuttgart and Istanbul, marking the start of the European clay court season.
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