The second singles match of the men’s tennis Unicharm Trophy Ehime International Open (Japan/Matsuyama, Hard, ATP Challenger) was held on the 6th, where Shintaro Mochizuki, ranked 248th in the world, defeated N. Basilashvili (Georgia), ranked 215th in the world. 6-4, 6-4 straight…
The second singles match of the men’s tennis Unicharm Trophy Ehime International Open (Japan/Matsuyama, Hard, ATP Challenger) was held on the 6th, where Shintaro Mochizuki, ranked 248th in the world, defeated N. Basilashvili (Georgia), ranked 215th in the world. They defeated him in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4, and advanced to the top eight.
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Mochizuki advanced to the tournament by defeating G. den Ouden (Netherlands), ranked 273rd in the world, in straight sets in the first round.
On this day, their first meeting, Mochizuki succeeded in breaking in the third game of the first set and took the lead without letting Basilashvili recover. In the second set, Mochizuki broke first in the third game, but then allowed a break back in the fourth game to even up. Still, he got a break in the 9th game with the game count 4-4, and converted his third match point in the 10th game, winning in 1 hour and 29 minutes.
In the quarterfinals, he will face either 7th seed Yasutaka Uchiyama or world No. 252 A. Brox (Belgium).
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