From November 14 to 20, the final table of the Kobe Japanese tournament will be played within the Challenger circuit on an indoor hard court, being category 80.
tournament results
It will be the sixth edition that the Hyogo Noah Challenger take place within this circuit. After three years it will be played again and we will have three champions on stage. One of them will want to be the first tennis player to repeat the title. The current one, who won in 2019 was Yosuke Watanuki that we have him as the head of the series. A year before, it was Tatsuma Ito that you have accessed through a protected ranking. The third tennis champion of the tournament is John Millman that in 2015 he was going to be the first winner in the history of the championship and this time we will have him as the second sword. As first will be his compatriot Cristopher O’Connell who two weeks ago already won a title.
The invitations have gone to three Japanese players who curiously have fallen in the lower part of the table that will make up 32 tennis players. Is about Shinji Hazawa, Taisei Ichikawa and Shintaro Imai.
ATP Challenger 80 Kobe Draw
First round
(1) Cristopher O’Connell (AUS) vs Qualy
(PR) Yuichi Sugita (JPN) vs Beibit Zhukayev (KAZ)
Zdenek Kolar (CZE) vs (PR) Tatsuma Ito (JPN)
Qualy vs (8) Tu Li (AUS)
(4) Kaichi Uchida (JPN) vs Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)
Qualy vs Rio Noguchi (JPN)
Sho Shimabakuro (JPN) vs Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN)
Qualy vs (7) Yosuke Watanuki (JPN)
(5) James Duckworth (AUS) vs (WC) Shinji Hazawa (JPN)
Qualy vs Qualy
Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) vs Frederico Ferreira Silva (POR)
Dane Sweeny (AUS) vs (3) Rinky Hijikata (AUS)
(6) Damir Dzmuhur (BIH) vs (WC) Taisei Ichikawa (JPN)
Nino Serdarusic (CRO) vs Nicholas David Ionel (ROU)
(WC) Shintaro Imai (JPN) vs Hiroki Moriya (JPN)
Filip Cristian Jianu (ROU) vs (2) John Millman (AUS)
