The men’s tennis Yokohama Keio Challenger International Tennis Tournament 2024 supported by Mita Kosan (Japan/Yokohama, Hard, ATP Challenger) held the singles quarterfinals on the 23rd, with Yuta Shimizu, ranked 217th in the world, participating as a wild card. Rei Sakamoto, ranked 769th in the world, 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-3) in full sets to advance to the top four.
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This is the second year in a row that 25-year-old Shimizu will be participating in the main event of the tournament. Last year, he lost in the finals against Yosuke Watanuki, a Japanese team, and came in second place.
On this day, which was their first confrontation, both players continued to hold serve in the early stages, but in the long rallies, Shimizu gradually began to push more and more and succeeded in getting his first break in the seventh game. After that, Shimizu got a break in the 9th game and took the lead.
In the second set, Shimizu took control and broke first in the fourth game. Sakamoto took a medical timeout after the fifth game and received treatment, and Shimizu broke him for the second time in the sixth game. However, in the seventh game, when he was serving for the match, he was given a break and the tide changed completely, as he won three more games in a row and went to a tie-break. In the tie-break, Shimizu was given a mini-break first and was unable to recover and was caught up with a set count of 1-1.
In the final set, Shimizu wanted to change the flow, but he conceded a break in the second game and was forced to chase. Even so, he succeeded in getting a break back in the third game, and then got a second break in the 11th game in the closing stages with the game count at 5-5. In the following 12th game, Serving for the Match, they were again unable to win and went into a tie-break, but Shimizu won the tie-break in this set, and after a desperate battle of 2 hours and 50 minutes, Shimizu won the match against the Japanese. did.
A double header (two games in one day) is scheduled for the quarterfinals and semifinals on the 23rd, and Shimizu will then face world No. 245 B. Hassan (Lebanon) in the semifinals. Hassan defeated J. McCabe (Australia), who is ranked 260th, in the quarterfinals in all sets.
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