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Tennis: Ito the hero as Japan beat South Korea in Davis Cup

April 7, 2013 08:30
Tatsuma Ito was the hero on Sunday as he took the decisive final match to give Japan a slim 3-2 victory over South Korea in their Davis Cup Asia/Oceania zone Group I second-round tie. The 24-year-old raced to a 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 win over Cho Min-Hyeok after rookie Lim Yong-Kyu had pulled off a surprising defeat of Go Soeda 5-7, 7-6 (7/5), 6-4, 6-3 to make it 2-2 in the best-of-five contest. Ito's win means Japan qualify for a place in the play-off for the World Group in September. "I tried to play 100 percent," Ito said. "I did my best from the beginning until the end."

Tennis: Ito the hero as Japan beat South Korea in Davis Cup

April 7, 2013 07:26
Tatsuma Ito was the hero on Sunday as he took the decisive final match to give Japan a slim 3-2 victory over South Korea in their Davis Cup Asia/Oceania zone Group I second-round tie. The 24-year-old raced to a 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 win over Cho Min-Hyeok after rookie Lim Yong-Kyu had pulled off a surprising defeat of Go Soeda 5-7, 7-6 (7/5), 6-4, 6-3 to make it 2-2 in the best-of-five contest. Ito's win means Japan qualify for a place in the play-off for the World Group in September.

Tennis: South Korea 1-2 against Japan in Davis Cup tie

April 6, 2013 03:45
Nam Ji-Sung and Lim Yong-Kyu pulled one back in the doubles for South Korea as Japan led 2-1 in the Davis Cup tennis Asia/Oceania zone Group I second round tie on Saturday. The Korean duo raced to a 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 win over Go Soeda and Yasutaka Uchiyama in the third match of the best-of-five contest. On Friday, Japan's Tatsuma Ito coasted to a straightforward 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 win over up-and-coming Jeong Suk-Young in the opening rubber, while Soeda had to come back from two sets down to beat Cho Min-Hyeok 5-7, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.

Tennis: Japan lead South Korea 2-0 in Davis Cup tie

April 5, 2013 07:30
Tatsuma Ito and Go Soeda gained a win each in a to give Japan a 2-0 lead over South Korea in the Davis Cup tennis Asia/Oceania zone Group I second round tie on Friday. Ito coasted to a straightforward 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 win over up-and-coming Jeong Suk-Young in the opening rubber of the best-of-five contest, while Soeda had to come back from two sets down to beat Cho Min-Hyeok 5-7, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. "I have worked on my physical strength since January and I wanted to test my improvement in this match. I gave 100 percent from the first point to the last," said Ito.

Tennis: WTA and ATP Masters Miami results - 1st update

March 21, 2013 13:32
Results on Thursday from the third day of the $8.5 million WTA and ATP Masters Miami hardcourt tournament (x denotes seeding): Men 1st rd Olivier Rochus (BEL) bt Tatsuma Ito (JPN) 4-6, 6-4, 3-1 - retired Lu Yen-Hsun (TPE) bt Robby Ginepri (USA) 7-5, 6-1 Alejandro Falla (COL) bt Go Soeda (JPN) 7-5, 6-1 Daniel Gimeno (ESP) bt Denis Istomin (UZB) 6-2, 6-4 Women 2nd rd Li Na (CHN x5) bt Kiki Bertens (NED) 6-3, 6-1 Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x4) bt Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) 6-3, 6-2 afp

Tennis: Japan whitewash over Indonesia in Davis Cup

February 3, 2013 10:15
Japan's Yuichi Sugita and Yasutaka Uchiyama completed a 5-0 whitewash over Indonesia to wind up the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Zone Group I first-round tie on Sunday. After taking an insurmountable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five contest on Saturday, Japan's number four Sugita breezed past Indonesia's number one Christopher Rungkat 6-1, 6-3. Then Uchiyama, who made a winning debut for the national team on Saturday when he and Tatsuma Ito took the doubles for a 3-0 lead, whipped Wisnu Adi Nugroho 6-1, 6-3 in the last dead rubber.

Tennis: Japan takes 2-0 lead over Indonesia in Davis Cup

February 1, 2013 05:45
Japan's Go Soeda played an almost perfect game against Indonesia's Wisnu Adi Nugroho on Friday, giving Japan a 2-0 lead over Indonesia in the Davis Cup tennis Asia-Oceania Zone Group I first-round tie. The 67th-ranked Soeda, fresh from winning the Maui Challenger in Hawaii earlier this month, coasted through an easy 6-0, 6-0, 6-1 victory over the lowly-ranked Nugroho. The winner of the best-of-five contest will play either South Korea or India in the second round in April.

Tennis-Auckland Open men's singles round 1 results

January 8, 2013 09:55
Jan 7 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Auckland Open Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Monday Santiago Giraldo (Colombia) beat Go Soeda (Japan) 6-1 6-0
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