Kei Nishikori

Unseeded Cypriot, Marcos Baghdatis, seemed to have found his vintage form, as he plonked the fifth seed Japanese, Kei Nishikori, in the second round contest during the Brisbane International tournament. On Wednesday, both players went face-to-face with …

The Cypriot Baghdatis took out fifth-seeded Japanese Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-4 on Day 4. Second-seeded Gilles Simon avoided an upset with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Aussie wild card James Duckworth. Simon will meet Colombian Santiago Giraldo in a quarter …

Second round: Bernard Tomic (Aus) bt Tatsuma Ito (Jpn) 6-1, 6-2; Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) bt Kei Nishikori (Jpn) 6-3, 6-4; Denis Istomin (Uzb) wo Tommy Haas (Ger); Alexandr Dolgopolov (Ukr) bt Igor Andreev (Rus) 6-7, 7-6, 6-2; Santiago Giraldo (Col) bt …

… but he had to fight back from the brink of defeat for the second successive match, eventually beating Luxembourg's Gilles Muller 4-6 7-6 6-0. The Briton next faces Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis, who dumped out fifth seed Kei Nishikori of Japan 6-3 6-4.

Kei Nishikori bowed out in the second round of the Brisbane International on Wednesday, losing to Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 6-3, 6-4. Nishikori, led 3-1 in the second set but lost the next four games in the ATP Tour season-opening event.

Number five seed Kei Nishikori and sixth seed Radek Stepanek were both pushed to three sets before emerging victorious in the Brisbane Open. But seventh seed Jurgen Melzer was an early casualty as he was beaten 6-1 7-5 by his doubles partner, …

BRISBANE: Top seed Andy Murray survived a tense examination from unheralded Mikhail Kukushkin to scrape into the second round of the Brisbane International yesterday.

Top seed Andy Murray survived a tense examination from unheralded Mikhail Kukushkin to scrape into the second round of the Brisbane International on Tuesday.

BRISBANE, Australia, Jan. 3 (UPI) — Top-seeded Andy Murray needed a third set Tuesday to get out of the first round of the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Australia.

Fifth seed Japanese, Kei Nishikori, bounced back a set down to overpower the German professional, Cedrik-Marcel Stebe, in the first round of the Brisbane International on Tuesday. Both contenders squared-off at the hard courts in Brisbane, …