Host country favorite Kei Nishikori rolled back the years with a vintage performance to beat Croatia's Marin Cilic 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in the first round at the Japan Open tennis championships Thursday.

The unexpected U.S. Open final between Kei Nishikori and Marin Cilic is another indication that the dominance of the Big Four is waning, says Cilic. The Croatian pointed to Stanislas Wawrinka's ...

Kei Nishikori is heading into the 2025 Australian Open in resurgent form, and could he challenge the likes of Carlos Alcaraz ...

All of the previews can be found here. Like Kei Nishikori, Marin Cilic has followed in the late-blooming footsteps laid down by Stan Wawrinka and Andy Murray. At 28, the Croat is coming off the ...

Kei Nishikori, the 2014 U.S. Open runner-up ... Nishikori reached the final at Flushing Meadows in 2014 before losing to Marin Cilic. The next year, Nishikori reached a career-high ranking ...

Bad luck seems to follow Kei Nishikori around at Wimbledon ... facing Croatia's Marin Cilic for a place in the quarter-finals, he was felled by a rib injury which had also forced him out ...

NEW YORK--Kei Nishikori, the 2014 U.S. Open runner-up ... Nishikori lost in the 2014 final there to Marin Cilic and was also a semifinalist in New York in 2016 and 2018.

Kei Nishikori's bid to go one better at the US ... Nishikori was the beaten finalist against Marin Cilic at Flushing Meadows in 2014, but the world number four became the first major casualty ...

Day 4 at the ATP event in Tokyo will feature the conclusion of the Round of 16, with two home players in action; two-time champion Kei ... Nishikori scored a fantastic first round win over Marin ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's former world No. 4 Kei Nishikori is headed toward his first Australian Open since 2021 after organizers named him Friday among the announced participants for the January ...

Kei Nishikori plays at Tokyo Olympic, on July 28, 2021.(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Former world No. 4 Kei Nishikori was among the five players Japan named Wednesday to face Britain in Davis Cup ...