His mere presence causes hysteria and pandemonium in the Land of the Rising Sun and he has no tennis equal in a continent heaving with 4,427 billion inhabitants, yet self-effacing Kei Nishikori thinks he is simply "one" of the best players in Japan.
One of the best? More like 'the best.'
For a continent that has failed to produce a single male Grand Slam champion in decades of trying, Nishikori now finds himself as the torchbearer of Asian tennis.
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