Sports News | Taylor Fritz and Casper Ruud Advance in Tokyo. Top Two Seeded Players out of Jiangxi Open
Get latest articles and stories on Sports at LatestLY. Top-seeded Taylor Fritz and second-seeded Casper Ruud both won their opening matches Tuesday at the Japan Open.
Tokyo, Oct 17 (AP) Top-seeded Taylor Fritz and second-seeded Casper Ruud both won their opening matches Tuesday at the Japan Open.
Fritz beat 18th-ranked Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-3 and Ruud defeated wild-card entry Yosuke Watanuki 7-6 (8), 6-3.
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Fritz, ranked 10th in the world, had 13 aces and broke Norrie three times to improve to 7-6 against the British player.
The 25-year-old American will next play Japanese wild-card Shintaro Mochizuki, who beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-4, 7-6 (5).
Ruud will next face American player Marcus Giron.
Other winners included Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin, Ben Shelton, Cristian Garin and Diego Schwatzman.
Jiangxi Open
Top-seeded Beatriz Haddad-Maia and second-seeded Magda Linette were both eliminated in the first round of the Jiangxi Open.
Nao Hibino upset Haddad-Maia 7-6 (2), 6-3, while Valeria Savinykh beat Linette 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (3).
Sixth-seeded Anna Blinkova also lost, falling to Chinese qualifier You Xiaodi 6-1, 6-1, while Hong Kong Open winner Leylah Fernandez defeated wild-card Guo Hanyu 6-1, 6-3.
Other winners included Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Varvara Gravach and Ulrikke Eikeri. (AP)
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