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.

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, …

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, …

Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, and Kei Nishikori, Japan, 6-2, 6-2. Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears, United States, def. Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, and Andrea Petkovic, Germany, 6-4, 6-7 (1), 10-7 tiebreak. Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, and Alicja Rosolska, …

Kei Nishikori and Kimiko Date-Krumm will play in their respective cup competitions in February, the Japan Tennis Association said Wednesday. Nishikori will return to a team that has earned its first stint in the top-tier World Group in 27 years when …

(WC) Kei Nishikori, (5) Fish vs. (Q) James Blake in an all-American encounter, and (7) Roddick vs. former world No. 2 Tommy Haas. Murray enters the event on a 15-match win streak. “Someone like Novak will tell you, when you've got momentum you want to …

PHOTO: AFP In-form Andy Murray is just one win away from a third straight title after crushing Japan's Kei Nishikori to seal a place in the Shanghai Masters final where he will face comeback king David Ferrer. The British second-seed was the …