Montreal Masters: Nishikori advances to last 16, upsets Tsitsipas

Japanese Kei Nishikori reached the last 16 of the Montreal Masters by producing a stunning win against Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 8 seed, 6-4, 6-4 at Stade IGA on Thursday afternoon.

It represents Nishikori’s first win vs a top 20 player in over three years, and will surely provide a confidence boost to the former major finalist. Additionally, the Japanese is also the third lowest ranked player to qualify for fourth round of a Masters 1000:

• Darren Cahill, world No 1013 (Indian Wells 1994)
• Tommy Haas, world No 882 (Indian Wells 2004)
• Kei Nishikori, world No 576 (Montreal 2024)

Nishikori will play Portuguese Nuno Borges next.

In the previous round of the Rogers Cup, the 34-year-old Japanese edged out American Alex Michelsen (3-6, 7-5, 6-4).

Montreal Masters 1000, other second-round matches (Stade IGA, hard, USD 6.795.555, most recent results first):

• Sebastian Korda vs. Taylor Fritz
• Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Arthur Rinderknech
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Ben Shelton
• Holger Rune vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
• Casper Ruud vs. James Duckworth
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Jannik Sinner vs. Borna Coric
• Jordan Thompson vs. Alexander Zverev
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Rinky Hijikata
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Karen Khachanov
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Andrey Rublev
• Daniil Medvedev vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Ugo Humbert vs. Nuno Borges
• Tommy Paul vs. Brandon Nakashima

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