"I couldn't even put the ball in the court, it was almost funny"- Kei Nishikori offers brutal assessment after DC Open defeat
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Nishikori's Brutal Self-Criticism Shows Why Champions Never Lower Their Standards
One of the hardest things for great athletes is accepting that the body no longer obeys the standards established by the mind. Kei Nishikori has built a career on extraordinary consistency, breathtaking court coverage and impeccable timing. Even as injuries have gradually limited those strengths, his expectations have never changed. That became painfully clear after his second-round defeat to rising Spanish teenager Rafael Jodar in Washington, w…
Will Kei Nishikori (36 years old) be resurrected on a short one one day? The Japanese had assured that this season would be his last on the circuit. There is, however, nothing to say today that the former world number 4 will go to the end. The current 721st world might have played on Wednesday in Washington against Rafael Jodar his latest game. Sweeped by the young Spaniard (6-3, 6-2) in the second round of the tournament on the occasion of his …
"I couldn't even put the ball in the court, it was almost funny"- Kei Nishikori offers brutal assessment after DC Open defeat
Kei Nishikori had a tall order to defeat the inform and dangerous Rafael Jodar at the DC Open. It would turn out that the task was too much for the 36-year-old who would succumb to a 6-3, 6-2 defeat, ending his ATP Tour return but he vows that he will not end his tennis career with a result like tha...
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