{"id":867013,"date":"2026-10-01T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867013\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:48:09","slug":"japan-open-kei-nishikori-retires-from-tennis-after-defeat-by-frances-tiafoe-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867013\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Open: Kei Nishikori retires from tennis after defeat by Frances Tiafoe in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After losing to Tiafoe, Nishikori did a lap of honour of the main showcourt in Tokyo &#8211; the place where he won the title in 2012 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A video featuring Djokovic, three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray and 1989 French Open winner Michael Chang, congratulating Nishikori, was also played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Your resilience and fighting spirit, to always come back after a lot of adversity, is really commendable and admirable,&#8221; Djokovic said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had some great battles all over the world. I&#8217;m really glad you&#8217;re ending your career in your town, your country, in front of your people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;re going to get the farewell you absolutely deserve.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nishikori started playing aged five and moved to Florida as a 14-year-old to train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He won 12 ATP Tour singles titles in his career and claimed 40 victories over top-10 players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was the first Japanese man to reach the top 10 of the world rankings and inspired numerous players, including four-time major champion Naomi Osaka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His 72.5% win-rate in deciding sets is the third best in ATP Tour history, behind only Bjorn Borg (73.4%) and John McEnroe (72.8%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing to Tiafoe, Nishikori did a lap of honour of the main showcourt in Tokyo &#8211; the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-867013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}