{"id":8841,"date":"2014-10-05T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=8841"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:52:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:52:33","slug":"nishikori-denies-raonic-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/nishikori-denies-raonic-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nishikori Denies Raonic in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/14374335209_8e613af58f_z-e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8833 alignnone\" alt=\"Kei Nishikori\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/14374335209_8e613af58f_z-e.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/14374335209_8e613af58f_z-e.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/14374335209_8e613af58f_z-e-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/14374335209_8e613af58f_z-e-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/14374335209_8e613af58f_z-e-500x266.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tokyo brought defeat for the top two seeds in the first round, which was all the opening the third seed, Kei Nishikori of Japan, and the fourth seed, Milos Raonic of Canada, needed to march into the final.<\/p>\n<p>In a tight three sets, Nishikori beat Milos Raonic 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-4, in a match which lasted 2 hours and 13 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo has been good to Japan&#8217;s top player &#8212; this was Kei&#8217;s second title there.\u00a0 He now has four titles in 2014, along with a Grand Slam final appearance at the US Open.\u00a0 It&#8217;s safe to say these are Kei&#8217;s best career achievements.<\/p>\n<p>But there is more to be achieved.\u00a0 Both Nishikori and Raonic are still fighting for the last five spots that are yet to be filled in the race to the year end championship in London.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=3026\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to discuss the Tokyo tournament in our Discussion Forum.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): Sum_of_Marc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo brought defeat for the top two seeds in the first round, which was all the opening the third seed, Kei Nishikori of Japan, and the fourth seed, Milos Raonic of Canada, needed to march into the final. In a tight three sets, Nishikori beat Milos Raonic 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-4, in a match which lasted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":8833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,20,405,379],"class_list":["post-8841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-kei-nishikori","tag-milos-raonic","tag-rakuten-open-tokyo","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}