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.

Marin Cilic, his face half-buried in a towel ... only Grand Slam singles title over fellow first-time major finalist Kei Nishikori. While he’s yet to scale those heights again, the 6’6 ...

CHENNAI, India (AP)—Marin Cilic’s preparations for this month’s Australian Open suffered a setback Monday when he lost to Kei Nishikori of Japan 4-6, 7-6 (0), 6-2 in the first round of the ...

NEW YORK -- No. 11 Kei Nishikori of Japan became ... He will play either Roger Federer or Marin Cilic in the final. Nishikori's game matches up with the best: Nishikori came into this ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kei Nishikori continues to roll back the years as he begins the 2025 season with his first tour level semi-final in four years. He hasn't reached one since August 2021 with the Hong Kong Open ...

Injury-ravaged Japanese veteran Kei Nishikori reached his first final in six years when China's Shang Juncheng retired ill at the Hong Kong Open on Saturday. The 35-year-old Nishikori, who reached ...

As former world No. 4 tennis star Kei Nishikori mulls over a dismal 2020 ... No. 4 Tomas Berdych in the first round. Then, he beat Marin Cilic, who was the world No. 3 at the time, and Alexander ...

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 ...