Yoshihito Nishioka

Yoshihito Nishioka (西岡 良仁) is a Japanese professional tennis player.

He has won two ATP Tour singles titles and achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 24 on 19 June 2023.

He is currently the No. 1 Japanese player.

He was beaten by 30th seed Thomaz Bellucci in the next round.

He also became the first Japanese men's singles champion since Toshiro Sakai, who won the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran.

Nishioka qualified for the Delray Beach Open in February.

He beat Igor Sijsling in the first round to record his first ATP main-draw win.

He followed that up with a straight-sets win over Marinko Matosevic to become the first teenage qualifier to reach the quarterfinals of the tournament since his countryman Kei Nishikori.

He lost to Bernard Tomic in straight sets.

As a junior, he compiled a 113–49 win–loss record in singles (and 63–45 in doubles), achieving a combined ranking of No. 12 in the world in January 2012.

French Open: 2R (2012, 2013)

Wimbledon: 2R (2012, 2013)

US Open: SF (2012)

Nishioka qualified for the US Open in his first Grand Slam qualifying appearance, but he was forced to retire in the first round match against Paolo Lorenzi because of illness.

The next week, he claimed his first ATP Challenger Tour title in Shanghai by beating Somdev Devvarman in the final.

Australian Open: 3R (2013)

In September, Nishioka earned men's singles gold medal in the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon, where he upset top seed Lu Yen-hsun of Chinese Taipei in the final.

He lost his chance to compete in the round of sixteen when he was beaten by 14th seed Dominic Thiem.

During the spring clay court season, Nishioka made his debut at the 2015 French Open, losing to fourth seed Tomáš Berdych in the first round.

In the 2015 US Open, Nishioka advanced to the second round of a Major for the first time in his career, beating fellow qualifier Paul-Henri Mathieu in five sets.

In November, he ended the 2015 season with his second challenger title in Toyota, beating Alexander Kudryavtsev in the final.

By winning the Asia-Pacific wildcard play-offs in Shenzhen, Nishioka earned a wildcard into the 2016 Australian Open.

However, he fell in the first round to Pablo Cuevas.

In February, he reached the quarterfinal of the Memphis Open as a qualifier, winning over Jared Donaldson and Illya Marchenko along the way.

He lost to fourth seed Sam Querrey in straight sets.

He then qualified for the Miami Open to make his ATP World Tour Masters 1000 main-draw debut, getting to the third round after beating fellow qualifier Jared Donaldson and 21st seed Feliciano López.

In June, Nishioka won through qualifying at 2016 Wimbledon for the first time, losing to Sergiy Stakhovsky in the first round of the main draw.

The following week, he earned his third Challenger title in Winnetka without dropping a set, beating Frances Tiafoe in the final.

He also moved into the top 100 of the ATP rankings for the first time.

At the Atlanta Tennis Championships, he reached his first ATP tournament semi-final, after defeating Daniel Evans, fourth seed Alexandr Dolgopolov and Horacio Zeballos.

He then lost to eventual champion Nick Kyrgios in three sets.

At the 2017 Australian Open, Nishioka earned his second win at a Grand Slam tournament when he defeated Alex Bolt.

In the second round, he was ousted by Roberto Bautista Agut in straight sets.

In February, he qualified for the Mexican Open by defeating Tobias Kamke and Ryan Harrison.

He proceeded to the quarterfinals after wins against Jack Sock and Jordan Thompson.

His victory against Sock was his first win over a top-20 opponent on the ATP Tour.

He was then defeated by Rafael Nadal in straight sets.

In March, Nishioka built on his momentum by entering the main draw at 2017 Indian Wells as a lucky loser.

In the first round of the main draw, he played a rematch of his qualifying loss against Elias Ymer, this time winning in straight sets.

In the second and third rounds he defeated Ivo Karlović and Tomáš Berdych respectively.