The keyword “heart” to Tokyo Keigo Nishikori Tennis August 27th 17:25

Kei Nishikori, a tennis boy who won a bronze medal at the last Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Japan's ace, who plays an active role in the world, puts the word “heart” as the keyword for the Tokyo Olympics, with the desire to become stronger mentally.
(Sports News Department reporter Ryoko Nishimura)

For Nishikori, the Olympics was a place to face his own “heart”.

The first Olympics were the 2008 Beijing Games that ended in the first round.
At that time, 18-year-old Nishikori was swallowed by a big stage that he had never experienced before, saying, “It was about the last game, and my feet finally started moving.

Over 10 years later, Nishikori will be one of the top players in the world.
However, as a professional, there are big goals such as the four major tournaments, and sometimes he was worried about how to face the Olympics.

The Rio Olympics greeted how they faced each other

The last 2016 Rio de Janeiro tournament was an Olympic with such problems.

Nevertheless, as the game progresses, the feelings of Nishikori's “heart” develop. The cheering that grows as we win and the expectation for medals.
I realized that I was playing to respond to such a voice.

“I came up with the desire to deliver a little bit of good news to Japan. I was able to think on the court that I wasn't alone, and I was born with an unprecedented power.”

Nishikori won a bronze medal. This was the first Olympic medal in 96 years for Japanese tennis.

“Not only for myself”

At the next year's Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics under the theme of “reconstruction”, monuments will be created based on the materials used in temporary housing in the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and messages of support for athletes will be written there. It has become.

Mr. Nishikori, who attended the event to introduce the initiatives, vowed to play an active role, "Messages from many people will resonate with me and I will do my best for them as well." .

The keyword is “heart”

As a keyword to Tokyo, the word that Nishikori wrote is “heart”.
In order to deliver victory, I wanted to become stronger mentally.

To the Tokyo Olympics greeted at the age of 30 “I have a feeling that I should be able to get even higher than the previous bronze medal. Even if it is pressure, I think that I can change it into my own experience I want to do my best and do my best. ”