Continuing our Season In Review series, ATPWorldTour.com revisits the fiercest rivalries of 2016. Today we feature Andy Murray vs. Kei Nishikori: With many high-pressure matches, pulsating moments and thrilling finishes, Andy Murray and Kei Nishikori met on four occasions in 2016 and their encounters had it all. Battling in a Grand Slam quarter-final, Davis Cup five-setter, Olympic semi-final and one of the best matches of the year at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, the pair provided arguably the most compelling rivalry and the drama between the lines did not disappoint. Entering the year, Murray had dominated the rivalry, taking five of six meetings and refusing to relinquish a set in all his victories. He was ruthless in dispatching Nishikori...
Andy Murray and Milos Raonic - who met in the final at The Queen's Club and Wimbledon this year - will resume their London rivalry today when they play in the semi-finals of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. In New York City in the 1980s - a time and a place captured by the fictional Gordon Gekko's declaration that "greed is good" - no one lived a life of excess quite like Ivan Lendl did. Nine years in succession, Lendl reached the final of this tournament, during an age when it was played in the city's Madison Square Garden. From those appearances, Lendl took five titles. And now Lendl could be involved in a 10th title-match at the season...
Kei Nishikori will meet Novak Djokovic, bidding to capture a sixth title at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, on Saturday in the semi-finals. It will be the pair’s sixth meeting in 2016 and their 13th FedEx ATP Head2Head clash overall (Djokovic leads 10-2). Nishikori completed Group John McEnroe with a 1-2 record, having lost to Marin Cilic, who finishes the season at a year-end No. 6 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. The 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory was Cilic’s first win in his sixth match at the season finale (also 2014), at The O2 in London. “I just tried to focus today's match,” said Nishikori. “Unfortunately, it was a tough loss. But hope I can play better tomorrow. I will...