Việt Nam’s Lý Hoàng Nam and his partner Issei Okamura of Japan advanced to the second round of the Japan F2 Men’s Futures tennis tournament men’s doubles.

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Nam, Okamura advance in Japanese Futures

March 15, 2017 - 09:00

Việt Nam’s Lý Hoàng Nam and his partner Issei Okamura of Japan advanced to the second round of the Japan F2 Men’s Futures tennis tournament men’s doubles.

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
Viet Nam News

HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam’s Lý Hoàng Nam and his partner Issei Okamura of Japan advanced to the second round of the Japan F2 Men’s Futures tennis tournament men’s doubles.

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 China 7-6, 3-6, 10-3.

Earlier, Sho Katayama and Arata Onozawa of Japan beat Chinese Taipei’s Huang Liang-chi and Lin Wei-de 6-2, 6-4.

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 Thailand’s Pol Wattanakul, while No 2 Max Purcell of Australia struggled but beat Sho Shimabukuro 2-6, 6-2, 6-4.

No 3 Takuto Niki beat his Japanese countryman Yunosuke Takana 6-4, 6-4.

Nam will play his second round singles match today against qualifier Lee Jea-moon of South Korea who defeated No 8 seed Jumpei Yamasaki 6-1, 6-3 on Monday. — VNS

 

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