Elizabeth Moore Sarasota Open at IMG Academy to be Kei Nishikori's final event

SARASOTA — This year’s Elizabeth Moore Sarasota Open will feature both the old and the new. Since its inception in 2008, the annual ATP Challenger Tour tournament has been held at The Resort at Longboat Key Club, the Lakewood Ranch Athletic Center, the United Tennis Center in Bradenton, Laurel Oak Country Club, the Payne Park Tennis Center, and last year, the Sarasota Sports Club. 2025 champion: Emilio Nava wins 2025 Sarasota Open men's singles championship at the Sarasota Sports Club This year’s Open, scheduled for April 5-12, 2026, will be hosted by IMG Academy.

That’s the new. The old will be represented by the return of Kei Nishikori, the winner in 2010. According to Moore, the 36-year-old has requested that this tournament serve as his retirement event.

“This will be a big deal,” Moore said. Nishikori is the only Japanese player in the Open Era to have been ranked in the top five in singles. In 2015, he achieved a ranking of No.

4. Nishikori has won 12 titles on the ATP Tour and was runner-up at the 2014 US Open. Other players who have won at the Sarasota Open include Francis Tiafoe, the 2017 champion and currently ranked 20th in the world; 2014 champion Nick Kyrgios; 2012 champion Sam Querrey; and 2011 champion James Blake.