Tennis Australian Open Wheelchair Club Kunieda and Uechi both head to the semifinals at 22:01 on January 29
Wheelchairs began at the four major tennis tournaments and the Australian Open, and Shingo Kunieda and Yui Uechi, singles for boys and singles, both broke through their first match and advanced to the semifinals.
The Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia, began its wheelchair division on the 29th.
Kunieda, the world's No. 1 player who aims to win the men's singles for the first time in two years, will face France's Nicolas Péfère in the first match, and in the first set suffers from the opponent's serve capture, the return is good at gradually We started at 6-4.
In the second set, three games were struck first, but the forehand bang was back on the axis, reversed and the team took 6-4 to win the set count 2-0 straight.
On the other hand, Uechi, the world's second-placed player aiming to win the women's singles for the first time in three years, played against Jordan Wiley of the United Kingdom in the first match and won the straight with a 2-0 set count of 6-2, 7-6. Was.
Kunieda and Uechi will both be in the semifinals on the 30th.
Kunieda "I want to be strong"
After finishing the first match, Kunieda said, "The first set was able to keep the service game firmly and I was able to stick with the inferior development. The second set was a break in the service game twice and my opponent's serve was good, I myself I played with the feeling that I couldn't do anything straightforward. I was nervous in the first game of the four major tournaments, and other players are also adjusting to this, and I myself want to be strong so that I can not lose to it. " I was talking.