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Nishikori Slides Through Grass-Court Season Opener
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Japanese will next meet Zverev or Khachanov
Two-time Gerry Weber Open semi-finalist Kei Nishikori started his grass-court season with a convincing 6-3, 7-6(3) win against German qualifier Matthias Bachinger on Monday in Halle.
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The seventh-seeded Nishikori, who reached the last four in 2014-15, won 70 per cent of his second-serve points (19/27) and broke three times to advance in 82 minutes. Nishikori will next meet German Mischa Zverev or Karen Khachanov of Russia.
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Spain's Robert Bautista Agut saved all four break points and overcame big-hitting German Jan-Lennard Struff 6-4, 6-1. The fourth seed feasted on Struff's second serve, winning 72 per cent (18/25) of those points.
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Bautista Agut, who made the quarter-finals last year, will next face Dutchman Robin Haase, who evened his FedEx ATP Head2Head series with Portugal's Joao Sousa (2-2) with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 victory. Haase and Sousa have split their two FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings (1-1).
Japanese star to meet Tomic in second round
Kei Nishikori reached the second round at Wimbledon for the seventh time, beating American Christian Harrison 6-2, 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-2 on Tuesday.
The Japanese No. 1, who has reached the Round of 16 on two occasions (2014, 2016), won 70 per cent of net points to improve to 14-8 at the grass-court Grand Slam championship. Nishikori is now just two wins away from recording his 350th tour-level victory (348-164).
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World No. 198 Harrison, who was bidding to become the lowest-ranked player to defeat Nishikori at a Grand Slam, was making his Wimbledon debut after a successful qualifying campaign. Prior to qualifying, the 24-year-old had won just two grass-court matches at any level.
Nishikori will face 2011 quarter-finalist Bernard Tomic in the second round. Tomic defeated Poland's Hubert Hurkacz 6-4, 6-2, 7-6(2) in one hour and 49 minutes. Nishikori and Tomic, who also owns a 14-8 record at SW19, are tied at 2-2 in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series.
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Did You Know?
Christian Harrison, alongside brother Ryan Harrison, are the 17th different pair of brothers in the Open Era to contest the Gentlemen’s Singles draw in the same year at Wimbledon. John McEnroe and Patrick McEnroe were the last American brothers to compete in the same draw in 1992.
Po 13 miesiącach Kei znowu w 4. rundzie turnieju WS (Wimbledon 2018).
Re: Kei Nishikori
: 10 lip 2018, 0:14
autor: Barty
Re: Kei Nishikori
: 10 lip 2018, 7:46
autor: arti
Nishikori Survives Tough Test Against Gulbis
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Kei Nishikori made Japanese history on Monday, becoming the first man from his country to reach the quarter-finals at all four Grand Slams with a 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(10), 6-0 victory against Latvian qualifier Ernests Gulbis at Wimbledon.
The No. 24 seed is the fourth Japanese man to advance to the quarter-finals at the All England Club, and the first since Shuzo Matsuoka in 1995. The other two Japanese players who have advanced that far, Zenzo Shimizu and Jiro Satoh, did so more than 80 years ago. The 28-year-old also extends his record for the most major quarter-finals reached by a Japanese player by battling to the last eight for the eighth time.
"[In the] second and third [sets] I tried to stay positive, even though I was struggling with my return game, and he was playing good today," Nishikori said. "I just tried to stay calm and fight every game."
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Nishikori will face three-time champion Novak Djokovic, who beat Open 13 Provence titlist Karen Khachanov.
"Novak is always a good player on grass. He's playing better and strong again. I'm sure it's going to be tough. Karen, I just lost to him two weeks ago," Nishikori said. "Either guy, I think it's going to be tough. But we'll see who's going to win today."
The outcome was in doubt for Nishikori until the fourth set, when the 11-time ATP World Tour titlist took advantage of a physically compromised Gulbis’ inhibited movement. For the majority of the match, though, the former World No. 4 struggled mightily to make any dents in his opponent’s service games.
In fact, Gulbis lost just eight service points in the first two sets. Nishikori did well getting to where the Latvian was serving, but simply could not do any damage with his returns, allowing the World No. 138 to dictate points from the first strike of the rally.
But the match turned in the third-set tie-break. Nishikori stormed to a 5-2 lead, and Gulbis twisted his left knee on the seventh point, forcing him to leave the court to receive treatment. Yet the Latvian battled, earning two set points in the 22-point tie-break. Gulbis dictated play on his second opportunity, a 22-point rally — which was the longest in the match — but eventually pushed a looping forehand down the line wide. And that was the only chance the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters finalist needed, claiming the final three points to gain the advantage.
Entering the fourth set, Gulbis, who had just one tour-level win this season entering Wimbledon, stared down the prospect of playing his fourth consecutive five-setter — no player has won four consecutive five-set matches at Wimbledon in the Open Era. But he could not move well enough to remain on top of the baseline and neutralise Nishikori's offence. The Japanese star, who called the trainer earlier in the match to look at his right arm, earned his only two breaks of the day to close out the match after three hours, 28 minutes.
"He's a fighter. He proved it today, that he found his way," Gulbis said. "I was unfortunate in the third set, yes, but in the second set he found a way to win it, so this was the key today."
Did You Know?
Nishikori reaches the quarter-finals at SW19 for the first time on his 10th opportunity. But he's not the only one to do so on Monday — John Isner also advanced to the final eight on the hallowed grass for the first time on his 10th appearance.
Kei dołączył do grona tenisistów, którzy osiągnęli ćwierćfinał każdego z 4 turniejów WS.
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Australian Open (3) - 2012, 2015, 2016 (0-3) Roland Garros (2) - 2015, 2017 (0-2) Wimbledon (1) - 2018 US Open (2) - 2014, 2016 (2-0)
Nishikori ma swoim koncie 8 ćwierćfinałów Ws (2-5).
Re: Kei Nishikori
: 31 lip 2018, 11:48
autor: Lleyton
Re: Kei Nishikori
: 02 sie 2018, 18:33
autor: Barty
Nishikori Sets Shapovalov Showdown
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Japanese No. 7 seed wins first match since Wimbledon
Kei Nishikori has set a blockbuster third-round Citi Open showdown with #NextGenATP Canadian Denis Shapovalov. The Japanese No. 7 seed beat qualifier Donald Young and the onset of heavy rain to win his opening match in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night.
In his first match since reaching the quarter-finals at Wimbledon, the 2015 Citi Open champion posted his seventh victory from as many FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings with the American, 6-3, 6-4 before rain returned to wash out the night’s remaining matches.
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Fit and healthy again after an ongoing wrist injury, Nishikori has made no secret of his desire to return to the Top 10 in the ATP Rankings by the end of the season, and he looked every bit the Top 10 player he once was against Young. The 28-year-old’s 22 winners more than doubled his opponent’s, and he dropped just seven points on his first serve.
Young was coming off an impressive win over former World No. 3 Stan Wawrinka in the opening round, having won through qualifying to reach the main draw. The World No. 234 did not drop serve once against Wawrinka but was broken twice against Nishikori. Despite having pegged back a break in the third set, he surrendered serve on a string of loose errors at 4-4 before the No. 7 seed served out the result in 84 minutes.
Earlier, No. 3 seed David Goffin rallied from 3-5 down in the third set to deny Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert in a two-hour-plus thriller. Both men broke five times during the match but it was the Belgian who prevailed 6-2, 1-6, 7-6(5) to set up a third-round clash with #NextGenATP American Frances Tiafoe.
Zverev will next face seventh seed Kei Nishikori, who defeated ninth seed Denis Shapovalov 7-6(1), 6-3. The Canadian had won their only previous FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting earlier this year on the hard courts of Acapulco, but the Japanese star evened their series with more consistent play from the baseline throughout the match.
Nishikori is into his fifth tour-level quarter-final of the season, as he continues his comeback from a right wrist injury. His clash against Zverev will be a rematch of the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters semi-finals, which Nishikori won in three sets to become the first Japanese player to reach the final of the event.
23-12 w tym roku, 10-5 w mastersach. W turniejach ATP Tour nie taki najgorszy sezon.
Re: Kei Nishikori
: 14 sie 2018, 8:52
autor: Barty
Re: Kei Nishikori
: 28 sie 2018, 17:02
autor: Lucas
Coaches' Corner: Bottini On Kei's Comeback & Working With Chang
Spoiler:
Nishikori begins his US Open against Marterer
Dante Bottini has been in Kei Nishikori’s corner for a large majority of the Japanese star’s career. When Bottini became Nishikori’s coach in December of 2010, the right-hander was No. 98 in the ATP Rankings. He would crack the Top 50 just four months later and Nishikori hasn’t fallen from that group since September of 2011.
Bottini has been a constant presence, from when his charge climbed as high as World No. 4 to when Nishikori missed time at the end of 2017 and the beginning of this season due to a right wrist injury. Bottini sat down with ATPWorldTour.com to speak about any changes to his approach with Nishikori over the years, working with another member of their team, Michael Chang, and more:
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Knowing how high Kei's level has been, how do you approach trying to help him work his way back toward the top of the ATP Rankings?
You’ve got to be very patient talking to him every single time. It’s not easy to come back after six months. You’ve got to start feeling all those butterflies and sensations that you used to feel before getting injured. We’ve just worked very hard during this time and then when we started playing the Challengers [in January], it was just going match by match. And like I said, he needs to start feeling those sensations and feelings on the court.
When you’re at practice and brainstorming what you want to work on, how different is your mentality compared to when he was in the Top 5, at his very best?
It's not really different, I know what Kei can do on the court. Obviously we have to be working on everything... When you play matches you know what to work on a little bit better. But we’ve been working on trying to get better at specific shots that we thought he lacked a little bit on last year. But no, not really [a different mentality]. We just keep working as hard as possible to continue getting better and better.
Everyone who plays a tournament has the goal of winning. But are there things that you might work on in practice that if he doesn’t win, but improves in a certain area, you consider that a success?
Yes, yes, of course. Obviously when you don’t win, the frustration is there and you leave the court and the tournament not that happy. But I always try to find the best part of the tournament, also the bad part so we could learn and improve them. But yeah, you always take good things from the tournaments so he can rely on that. I’m a really positive guy, so I try to see the positive things in what he does. Obviously the bad things, we can learn from those, too.
You say you like to be positive with Kei. How do you go about a pre-match routine? Do you talk to him right before the match to give him a positive mindset or after you have your warm-up hit, do you just let him stay to himself before the match?
We talk. We talk the day before, we talk the day he’s going to be playing a match. I’m always trying to be very positive, encouraging him, giving him whatever tactics he needs and whatever he needs to play against his opponent that day and remind him the things we’ve been working on and that’s it. We just go for it.
What’s it like to be part of a coaching team with Michael Chang?
Very good. Very good, actually. I think we complement each other very well. We are very different outside the court, I think. But once we talk tennis, we complement each other very well. I’ve been very happy to work with him. I’m actually very happy with the whole team we have around Kei. So yes, can’t complain. I think if the team couldn’t be together, we wouldn’t be working together, that’s for sure.
You say you and Michael complement each other. What do you think your respective strengths are coaching Kei?
It’s difficult because I’m with Kei year-round and Michael is here maybe 20 weeks out of the year. So obviously when he joined us, I gave him space to talk to Kei and give us his feedback. But I think it’s probably difficult to say, to tell you the truth. I think we both are very positive. We both like to work hard. He really likes to work hard, so I like that about him. He’s a very positive guy and he’s always looking to do something to improve. I love that. I love that about him. Maybe I’m a little bit more relaxed, and he’s a little more detailed, so we complement each other. When he comes, I let him do his thing.
Since you began working with Kei in December 2010, have you changed your approach to working with Kei and if so, how?
Oh yes, definitely. At the beginning, even though he was 20 years old, he was more like a kid and I felt he needed to improve so many things. You always have to improve. It’s not like I’m not tough, but I was tougher with him and with the team. I’m still tough with him, but as you grow older, you approach the person differently. I’m not going to talk to him now the same way I talked to him eight years ago when he was 20 years old. Now he understands things better. Sometimes I look at him and he looks at me and he probably knows what I’m asking from him and I know what he’s asking from me. So just by our looks, the faces, something like that, we understand.