be right up with the big boys
錦織選手，やってくれました！まさにアップセット！明るいニュースに心が躍ります．
彼を育てたIMG Academyの名伯楽だった Bollettieriコーチ は錦織選手の今季の活躍を「予言」していたそうです．right up with the big boys...英語らしい言い回しです．うまい日本語が出てきませんね，「男子3強にならぶ」？ともかくも嬉しい！いろいろな意味で！（UG）
Kei Nishikori Reaches U.S. Open Final, Beating Novak Djokovic
He has long been considered a great talent by people who have seen plenty of great talent, including Nick Bollettieri, the veteran American coach who is the instructor emeritus at the academy in Bradenton that once bore his name.
“He and Xavier Malisse and Marcelo Rios are the best shotmakers I’ve ever worked with,” Bollettieri said in an interview before this season. “If Kei Nishikori could stay healthy, he could be and would be right up with the big boys.”
Eight months later, here Nishikori is.