“There are more people who have walked on the Moon than who have beaten him in five sets! » Kei Nishikori, the specialist in long matches who never gives up

In the category of returnees and veterans who populate the chronicle of the circuit, we must not forget Kei Nishikori, 35 years old, who had not won a match in Melbourne for 2,183 days (in 2019). The Japanese, who knows how to steal time from his opponents with his timing game, had lost his time fighting injuries of all kinds (hip, wrist, back, knee). Injuries which had dropped him to 576th in the world last August. A major problem for such a dynamic player who reached the final of the 2014 US Open and rode the financial success of enormous advertising contracts in Japan.