Lý Hoàng Nam and partner Issei Okamura earn a berth in the second round of the Japan F2 Men’s Futures’ doubles event. — VNS Photo |
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The No 3 seeds defeated Japanese Gengo Kikuchi and Shunrou Takeshima 6-2, 7-6 in the first round.
They will play wildcard pair Yuhei Kono and Yuto Sakai of the hosts in the next round.
In another match yesterday, Japanese Takuto Niki and Kaito Uesugi caused an upset by beating No 1 duo Gao Xin and Li Zhe of
Earlier, Sho Katayama and Arata Onozawa of
In the singles event, no surprises as all high seeded players qualified for the next round.
No 1 Chinese Li Zhe easily won 6-1, 6-1 over
No 3 Takuto Niki beat his Japanese countryman Yunosuke Takana 6-4, 6-4.