Tennis Men's Country-Country Battle Japan Lost to France Starts Black Star November 20 5:09
Japan defeated France, the first seed, in the first league of the Davis Cup, a national match against tennis men in Spain.
The national competition for tennis boys started in Spain on the 18th, and 18 countries including Japan and others are divided into 6 groups to advance to the final tournament and play brute force.
The first league was played by the team that won the first two games out of three games, including two singles and one doubles, and Japan played against France in the first game on the 19th.
In the first game singles, Takashi Uchiyama, who ranked 81st in the world ranking, lost to Joe Willfried Tsonga, who ranked 29th in the world, but in the second singles, Yoshihito Nishioka, who ranked 73rd in the world, was ranked 10th in the world. Won a straight win against Gael Monfies.
In the doubles game, which was greeted with 1 win and 1 loss, the pair of Uchiyama and Tsutomu MacLachlan lost the full set, and Japan lost 1 to 2 and lost to France.
Japan will play Serbia in the second game on the 20th.