RIO DE JANEIRO: Kei Nishikori won Japan's first Olympic tennis medal in almost a century on Sunday when he captured bronze against Rafael Nadal, despite the weary Spaniard mounting a stirring mid-match fightback.

Nishikori triumphed 6-2, 6-7 (1/7), 6-3 to become the first Japanese tennis medallist since Antwerp in 1920 when the country won men's silver and men's doubles silver.

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