Kei Nishikori will return to professional tennis in January, but not at the season's first Grand Slam in Melbourne. Nishikori has withdrawn from the Australian Open, but the former World No. 4 is planning on launching his comeback at the inaugural ATP Challenger Tour event at the Newport Beach Tennis Club in Newport Beach, U.S.A, to be held 20-28 January. The tournament is part of the inaugural Oracle Challenger Series, which also will include a Challenger event from 24 February – 4 March in Indian Wells, in the lead up to the BNP Paribas Open, the season's first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament. Both tournaments will feature $150,000 prize money. [ALSO LIKE] “I am very excited and looking forward...
Kei Nishikori announced on Wednesday that he will miss the rest of the 2017 ATP World Tour season in order to recover from a right wrist injury. The Japanese star flew to Cincinnati, but withdrew from the Western & Southern Open when he felt a sharp pain in his right wrist during a practice session on Sunday at the Lindner Family Tennis Center. A statement from Nishikori's manager read, “Two days ago during practice in Cincinnati, Kei hit a serve and heard a 'pop' in his wrist. We went straight to the hospital to take an MRI. Yesterday, we went to see a very renowned wrist specialist, who works with many of the MLB baseball pitchers. “We saw another specialist...
Kei Nishikori discusses his preparation and expectations for the coming week in Montreal as he seeks his first Masters 1000 title. Watch live matches at tennistv.com.
Watch Friday highlights from the Citi Open, featuring quarter-final wins from Kei Nishikori and Alexander Zverev. Watch live matches at tennistv.com. Photo: Peter Staples/ATP World Tour
Kei Nishikori has done it the hard way this week at the Citi Open. After an opening-round win over Donald Young that finished at 1:39am, he saved three set points to reach the quarter-finals over Juan Martin del Potro in a match that ended at 2:00am. On Friday night, the second seed continued his penchant for the dramatic this week by saving three match points to defeat wild card and #NextGenATP American Tommy Paul 3-6, 7-6(8), 6-4. "I think he played good tennis and almost had it today. It was a great battle," said Nishikori. "He got a little bit tight trying to close it out in the end and I didn't make any unforced errors on the big points....
