Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios easily made it to the round of 16 on the Tuesday playing day of the hard-court men's tennis tournament in Tokyo with a total prize pool of 2.1 million dollars (HUF 900 million).
In the opening round, the fifth ranked Australian player saw off Taiwan's Ceng Chun-Hsint in just over an hour.
Results:
Round 1 (to reach the round of 16):
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Kyrgios (Australian, 5th)-Ceng (Taiwanese) 6:3, 6:1
Noguchi (Japan)-Ramanathan (India) 6:4, 3:6, 7:6 (7-1)
Majchrzak (Poland)-Simabukuro (Japan) 7:6 (7-2), 6:2
Morija (Japan)-Shimizu (Japan) 6:1, 6:3
previously:
Munar (Spain)-Ruud (Norway, 1.) 6:3, 6:3
Kwon (South Korea)-De Minaur (Australian, 6th) 6:3, 6:2
Evans (British, 8th)-Albot (Moldova) 6:7 (3-7), 6:1, 6:4
Coric (Croatian, 9th)-Kokkinakis (Australian) 6:4, 7:6 (7-4)
McDonald (American)-Uchida (Japan) 7:6 (7-4), 6:7 (2-7), 6:3
(Source: Source: sportrajongo.hu, mti/Photo: pixabay, mti)