TENNIS PLAYER

Kei Nishikori

1989 - Today

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Kei Nishikori (錦織 圭, Nishikori Kei, [ɲiɕi̥koꜜɾi keꜜː]; born 29 December 1989) is a Japanese professional tennis player. He is the only Japanese man in the Open Era to have been ranked in the top five in singles, reaching his career-high ranking of world No. 4 in March 2015, and the second man in history to do so after Jiro Sato. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kei Nishikori has received more than 3,611,625 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Kei Nishikori is the 268th most popular tennis player (down from 169th in 2019), the 1,378th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,185th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Tennis Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Kei Nishikori ranks 268 out of 1,569. Before him are Harry Hopman, Frew McMillan, Dinara Safina, Karel Koželuh, Frank Parker, and Lindsay Davenport. After him are Ichiya Kumagae, Àlex Corretja, Herbert Baddeley, Yola Ramírez, Elisabeth Moore, and Seiichiro Kashio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1989, Kei Nishikori ranks 62. Before him are Bas Dost, Anthony Joshua, Moussa Sissoko, Paulo Henrique Ganso, Giovani dos Santos, and Nathalie Emmanuel. After him are Kim Woo-bin, Lily James, Anton Yelchin, Alexandra Stan, Eduardo Vargas, and Bebe Rexha.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kei Nishikori ranks 1,378 out of 6,245. Before him are Yasuhito Suzuki (1959), Toru Yoshikawa (1961), Aya Kitō (1962), Nujabes (1974), Yasumasa Kanada (1948), and Koichi Kudo (1909). After him are Kazuo Imanishi (1941), Romi Park (1972), Yuzuru Hanyu (1994), Ichiya Kumagae (1890), Seiji Honda (1976), and Nobuo Kishi (1959).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Japan

Among tennis players born in Japan, Kei Nishikori ranks 3. Before him are Naomi Osaka (1997), and Jiro Sato (1908). After him are Ichiya Kumagae (1890), Seiichiro Kashio (1892), Kimiko Date (1970), Ai Sugiyama (1975), Kazuko Sawamatsu (1951), Yoshihito Nishioka (1995), Shingo Kunieda (1984), Akiko Morigami (1980), and Nao Hibino (1994).

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