(Photo: Mathieu Belanger / Tennis Canada)
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Limited skeds on the Asian swing Wednesday as Beijing has only the final round of qualifying, and Tokyo has only four singles matches.
But a couple are high-level: Matteo Berrettini is playing, along with No. 2 seed Hubert Hurkacz.
And Kei Nishikori returns to the Tokyo event and gets a stadium court slot for his first-round doubles match.
(Beijing is 12 hours ahead of EDT; Tokyo is 13 hours ahead)
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Japan Open Tennis Championships
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Category: ATP 500
Surface: Hard Court
Dates: Sept. 25 – Oct. 1, 2024
Prize money: $1,989,865
Draws: S32 – D16
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024
Final results
Singles, first round
[2] Hubert Hurkacz (POL) def. Marcos Giron (USA) 64 67 (6) 64
Matteo Berrettini (ITA) def [Q] Botic van de Zandschulp (NED) 63 64
Ugo Humbert (FRA) def. [WC] Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN) 61 62
Mariano Navone (ARG) def Luciano Darderi (ITA) 64 64
Doubles, first round
[1] Nathaniel Lammons / Jackson Withrow (USA) def. [WC] Kei Nishikori / Rei Sakomoto (JPN) 67 (6) 64 [10-6]
Jack Draper (GBR) / Tomas Machac (CZE) def [Q] Alexander Erler (AUT) / Matwe Middelkoop (NED) 46 76 (4) [10-8]
Ben Shelton (USA) / Jordan Thompson (AUS) vs. [WC] Yoshihito Nishioka / Kaito Uesugi (JPN)
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China Open
Location: Beijing, China
Category: ATP 500 (Joint event with the WTA Tour)
Surface: Hard Court
Dates: Sept. 26 – Oct. 2, 2024
Prize money: $3,720,165
Draws: S32 – D16
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024
Final results
Qualifying, final round
(1st-round opponents in brackets)
[7] Roberto Bautista Agut (CHN) def [3] Roman Safiullin (RUS) 75 36 64 ([5] Grigor Dimitrov)
Zizou Bergs (BEL) def Corentin Moutet (FRA) 64 64 ([6] Lorenzo Musetti)
[6] Pavel Kotov (RUS) def [2] Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP) 76 (3) 46 63 ([WC] Zhou Yi)
[8] Jakub Mensik (CZE) def [4] Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) 62 57 62 (Francisco Cerundolo)
[LL] Roberto Carballes Baena ([7] Karen Khachanov)
Doubles qualifying, final round
[1] Jamie Murray (GBR) / John Peers (AUS) def Gonzalo Escobar / Diego Hidalgo (ECU) 67 (7) 76 (7) [12-10] (Rafael Matos / Marcelo Melo)
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This is weird …. I’m sure Brad Drewett is a really nice guy and he had a pretty decent career …. but … and I haven’t looked into it but how is it that he gets a court named after him in Beijing of all places?
Is this some weird thing like the way they used to name the grandstand in Toronto on a yearly rotating basis. Who can forget when players would play on the “Daniel Nestor” court …. hahahah I notice Toronto gave up on that idea a few years ago …..
Why don’t you just Google it. It’s not that weird.
Not that it’s out of character, from the little I know of you, that you’d mock people who have actually accomplished things and are commmemorated for it.