By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday April 23, 2025
35-year-old Kei Nishikori continues to be loving his time on tour, and nonetheless racking up wins.
The previous World No. 4 defeated Aleksandar Vukic on Thursday in Madrid, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, to turn out to be the eighth energetic participant to succeed in 450 wins. Nishikori, a 12-time ATP title winner, is the primary Asian man to attain that quantity.
Coming from a rustic that had by no means had a Prime-40 participant, it’s fairly a marker. How did Nishikori get to date?
“I don’t know,” he stated with a smile on court docket. “I simply tried to play one match at a time.”
2014 Madrid runner up Nishikori, who faces Denis Shapovalov within the second spherical, hopes he can get at the least 50 extra wins.
“That’s rather a lot,” he stated of his present whole. “Hopefully I can attain 500. ”
Lively ATP Gamers with 450 or Extra Wins:
Djokovic, 1136
Gasquet, 609
Cilic, 590
Monfils, 581
Wawrinka, 579
Zverev, 482
Dimitrov, 471
Nishikori, 450
The Shimane, Japan native, who underwent hip surgical procedure in 2022, was nominated for ATP Comeback participant of the 12 months in 2024. He began the season by reaching the ultimate in Hong Kong, which was his first ATP last in six years.
