Olympic Focus Battle Kei Nishiori defeated Rublev 2-0 and passed by Tsitsipaszverev

Beijing time on July 25 news, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics tennis event began the second matchday of competition, the men's singles first round of focus battle, the home game of Nishikori Kei withstood the pressure, 6-3, 6-4 defeat to the No. 5 seed Rublev, becoming the only men's singles player in the host to advance to the second round. Rublev became the only men's singles player on the Russian Olympic Committee to be out. In other competitions, Tsitsipas and Zverev, the two big seeds, advanced to the second round.

In this Olympic Games, the host Japan Men's Tennis Team sent four people to play in the men's singles competition, after the first day, Daniel Taro and Sugita Yuichi both lost to their opponents and failed to pass, and Nishioka Ryohito, who took the lead on the second match day, was reversed by Khachanov 6-3, 1-6, 2-6, leaving only Kei Nishikori. In the end, Kei Nishikori withstood the pressure and won two straight sets to win 5th seed Rublev 6-4, 6-3, winning the only victory for the host men's singles. He said after the game: "This is the first time I've played at such a high level since my injury recovery, and it's really great to beat the TOP10 players. Usually I don't try my best on a shot, but today I tried to increase my aggressiveness in order to build an edge for the later rounds and I was very happy with my play. ”

In other matches: Tsitsipas, the 3rd seed, stabilized his position after being broken first in the decider, and finally defeated the German veteran Korshreber 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; the 4th seed Zverev swept the Chinese Taipei veteran Lu Yanxun 6-1, 6-3 to easily advance to the second round; Hulkach, Schwartzmann and other seeded players also successfully advanced.

Two-time Olympic men's singles gold medalist and Britain's Murray announced his retirement from the men's singles competition at the Tokyo Olympics due to injury. "The medical staff advised me not to play in this game, so I made the decision to withdraw from singles and focus on doubles instead." Murray said in a statement.

On the third day of men's singles, Djokovic, Medvedev and Zverev will attack the round of 16, the specific schedule is as follows:

Centre Court:

Zverev vs Garland (John 12:00)

Djokovic vs Struf (c. 16:00)

Court 1:

Nagar vs Medvedev (c. 14:00)

Carreno Busta vs Cilic (c. 16:00)

Course 2:

Fognini v. Gerasimov (John 12:00)

Coffer vs Purcell (c. 16:00)

Stadium 3:

Mirman vs Davydovich Fudkina (c. 12:00)

Stadium 4:

Bashirashvili vs Sonig (c. 12:00)