Kei Nishikori sets up his two-handed backhand in textbook fashion, and his body coils with the shoulders turned to the net in excess of 90 degrees. This allows him to hit with surprising power and ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Kei Nishikori of Japan rallied after dropping the first set to beat American Sam Querrey 5-7, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) Saturday night in the Memphis Open semifinals. Now the two ...

Second seed Tomas Berdych crashed out in the day’s late quarter-final, beaten 7-5 6-4 by local favourite Kei Nishikori under floodlights in the tournament’s biggest upset so far. Olympic ...

Japan’s Kei Nishikori admitted he didn’t know if he would make a return to the top of the men’s game after a series of injury concerns, but he has taken a big leap forward in the ATP ...

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Mitchell Krueger (No. 141 in the world) meets Kei Nishikori (No. 66) in the Round of 32 at the Fayez Sarofim & Co. US Men’s Clay Court Championship.Nishikori is the favorite ...

The Japanese tennis fraternity had a surprise tie as Kei Nishikori was set to face his compatriot Yoshihito Nishioka but that ...

Japanese veteran Kei Nishikori, who revealed during the Australian Open that he almost quit tennis last year after lengthy battles with injury, defeated Spain's Jaume Munar 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (7/3) to ...

Kei Nishikori withdrew from the Miami Open a couple of hours before his first-round duel against fellow Japanese Yoshihito ...

Kei Nishikori has pulled out of the Miami Open hours before he was due to take to the court for his first-round match. The former world No. 4 enjoyed a deep run at last week’s Phoenix Challenger ...

As former world No. 4 tennis star Kei Nishikori mulls over a dismal 2020 due to surgery and contracting the novel coronavirus, he finds hope from looking back two years ago. He was in a similar ...