Diego Schwartzman tops Kei Nishikori in Italian Open quarterfinals
Argentina's Diego Schwartzman cruised past Kei Nishikori in straight sets to advance to the Italian Open semifinals on Thursday. Schwartzman won 6-4, 6-2 in 87 minutes in the quarterfinal for his first win against Nishikori, the sixth seed. The 24th-ranked one-time French Open quarterfinalist has not ...
Naomi Osaka, Kei Nishikori advance to Italian Open quarterfinals
Women's world No. 1 Naomi Osaka and seventh-ranked men's player Kei Nishikori both advanced to the Italian Open quarterfinals with two wins apiece on Thursday. A day after rain washed out play on the Foro Italico's red clay, Osaka defeated 39th-ranked Romanian Mihaela Buzarnescu 6-3, ...
Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal reach Italian Open third round; Kei Nishikori, Naomi Osaka also advance
World No. 3 Roger Federer eased into the third round of the Italian Open on Thursday with a straight-sets win over Portugal's Joao Sousa. Federer won 6-4, 6-3 against the 72nd-ranked Sousa and will play Croatian 13th seed Borna Coric later in the day for ...
Naomi Osaka rolls into quarterfinals in Madrid; Kei Nishikori advances
World No. 1 Naomi Osaka delivered an improved display to reach the quarterfinals of the Madrid Open on Wednesday, beating Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-2, 6-3, while Petra Kvitova and Simona Halep also made it into the last eight. Osaka had a hard-fought, three-set win over Sara ...
Kei Nishikori failed in his bid to reach the Barcelona Open final for the first time in four years, falling a step short in a semifinal loss on Saturday. A two-time champion and three-time finalist in Barcelona, world No. 7 Nishikori lost 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 ...
Kei Nishikori swept into the quarterfinals of the Barcelona Open with a 6-1 6-3 win over Felix Auger-Aliassime on Thursday. The seventh-ranked star, eliminated in the second round in Monte Carlo last week, broke the Canadian teenager, ranked 31st, in the opening game of the ...
Kei Nishikori advanced to the third round of the Barcelona Open on Tuesday following a 7-5, 6-2 win against Taylor Fritz of the United States. The fourth-seeded Nishikori rallied from a slow start in his second clay tournament of the year to collect the straight-sets ...
Kei Nishikori bounced from Monte Carlo Masters in second round
Kei Nishikori had no answer for some magical shot making by world No. 49 Pierre Hugues Herbert, who won their second-round match at the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday. Nishikori, ranked sixth in the world and seeded fifth at the clay-court event, lost 7-5, 6-4 ...
Kei Nishikori and Yuzuru Hanyu named to ESPN's list of 100 most famous athletes
Kei Nishikori and Yuzuru Hanyu were the only two Japanese athletes named Wednesday to ESPN's 2019 World Fame 100, the network's fourth annual list of the most famous athletes on the planet. Nishikori, the current world No. 7 men's singles tennis player, placed 28th on ...
Naomi Osaka, Kei Nishikori both lose in upsets at Indian Wells
World No. 1 and defending champion Naomi Osaka crashed out of the fourth round of the women's tournament at the BNP Paribas Open on Tuesday, upset by a lower-seeded challenger just hours after fellow countryman Kei Nishikori suffered the same fate in the third ...
Kei Nishikori survived a scare against France's Adrian Mannarino on Sunday to reach the third round of the BNP Paribas Open. The sixth-seeded Nishikori beat Mannarino 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4) in his opener at the ATP Masters 1000 event at Indian Wells Tennis Garden. The world ...
Kei Nishikori suffers shock loss in second round of Dubai Championships
Top seed Kei Nishikori crashed out in the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships on Wednesday with a 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 loss to 77th-ranked Hubert Hurkacz of Poland. In their first career meeting, the 22-year-old Hurkacz served nine aces and double faulted just once ...
