{"id":617607,"date":"2025-12-07T09:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T09:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617607\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T09:03:20","slug":"japans-nishikori-sets-sights-on-tennis-top-stage-after-return-from-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617607\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Nishikori sets sights on tennis&#8217; top stage after return from injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/sports\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Asia&#8217;s most successful men&#8217;s singles star aims to play in 2026 Australian Open<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20251128 Nishikori\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Kei Nishikori plays in the second round of the Yokohama Keio Challenger tennis tournament in Yokohama, Japan, on Nov. 20. \u00a9 Kyodo<\/p>\n<p>MASAKO HARA<\/p>\n<p>December 7, 2025 12:30 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">YOKOHAMA, Japan &#8212; Once ranked No. 4 in the world, Japan&#8217;s Kei Nishikori started another comeback from injury in front of a thin crowd of just 200 at Keio University&#8217;s Hiyoshi Campus in Yokohama on Nov. 18. For Asia&#8217;s highest ever ranked tennis player in men&#8217;s singles, it was a huge departure from matches at venues such as the U.S. Open&#8217;s Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports Asia&#8217;s most successful men&#8217;s singles star aims to play in 2026 Australian Open Kei Nishikori plays in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[25563,156433,192401,26335,45611,192402,79,2765,1068,1067,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-617607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-injury","9":"tag-japans","10":"tag-nishikori","11":"tag-return","12":"tag-sets","13":"tag-sights","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-stage","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-top","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115677483824262255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}