Chris Oddo| @thefanchild | Wednesday, April 23, 2025
35 years old Kei Nishikori Still love his time on tour and still wins.
The former world fourth place, defeated Aleksandar Vukic 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in Madrid on Thursday, becoming the eighth active player with 450 wins. Nishikori is the 12-time champion of the ATP champion and is the first Asian to win that number.
From a country where there have never been 40 players, it’s a big mark. How did Nishikori get so far?
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“I don’t know,” he said with a smile in court. “I’m just trying to play one game at a time.”
2014 Madrid runner-up Nishikori faces Denis Shapovalov’s Nishikori in the second round, hoping he will win at least 50 more wins.
“That’s a lot,” he said of the current total. “Hopefully I can reach 500.”
Active ATP players have 450 or more wins:
Djokovic, 1136
Gasquet, 609
Cilic, 590
Monfils, 581
Wawrinka, 579
Zverev, 482
Dimitrov, 471
Nishikori, 450
Shijima people in Japan underwent hip surgery in 2022 and were nominated for ATP’s ATP return player of the year in 2024. He started the finals in Hong Kong this season, his first ATP final in six years.
