Atmel ICE Debugger - Does it work with nRF52-DK
just test it with OpenOCD and Atmel ICE via CMSIS-DAP - and it's working fine.

c:\_elektro\OpenOCD&gt;bin\openocd.exe -f interface/cmsis-dap.cfg  -f target/nrf52.cfg
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.10.0 (2019-02-10) [https://github.com/sysprogs/openocd]
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
        http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
Info : auto-selecting first available session transport "swd". To override use 'transport select &lt;transport&gt;'.
adapter speed: 1000 kHz
cortex_m reset_config sysresetreq
Info : Listening on port 6666 for tcl connections
Info : Listening on port 4444 for telnet connections
Info : CMSIS-DAP: SWD  Supported
Info : CMSIS-DAP: JTAG Supported
Info : CMSIS-DAP: FW Version = 01.27.0082
Info : CMSIS-DAP: Serial# = J41800069538
Info : CMSIS-DAP: Interface Initialised (SWD)
Info : SWCLK/TCK = 1 SWDIO/TMS = 1 TDI = 1 TDO = 1 nTRST = 0 nRESET = 1
Info : CMSIS-DAP: Interface ready
Info : clock speed 1000 kHz
Info : SWD DPIDR 0x2ba01477
Info : nrf52.cpu: hardware has 6 breakpoints, 4 watchpoints
Info : Listening on port 3333 for gdb connections
Info : accepting 'telnet' connection on tcp/4444
Warn : target was in unknown state when halt was requested
Info : nRF52832-QFAA(build code: B0) 512kB Flash