US Open Wheelchair Tennis Kunieda wins Women's Doubles Uechi V September 14 5:58
Shingo Kunieda defeated a British player in the men's singles final of the US Open wheelchair division, the four major tennis tournaments, and won his seventh victory in five years.
In addition, Yui Kamiji won the women's doubles.
On the final day of the US Open, the men's singles final was held in the wheelchair section on the 13th, and Kunieda, who ranked first in the world, will face Alfie Huwet of the United Kingdom in third place in the world, who had won the tournament for the second time in a row. did.
Kunieda took the first set 6-3, but in the second set he made a mistake at the end and dropped it 3-6.
In the final third set, he showed a variety of shots and tenacity at the ball, and although he led for a while, he was overtaken by the opponent with a bang.
The match was entangled in a tiebreaker, but in the end Kunieda took it 7-6 and won a close match with a set count of 2: 1 to win his seventh victory in five years.
Kunieda was defeated by Huwet at the US Open for the third consecutive year, but he was humiliated.
Kunieda won the Australian Open in the singles of the four major tournaments, and the total number of wins was "24".
On the other hand, in the women's doubles, Uechi, who was the runner-up in the singles, faced the final with Jordan Wiley of England, defeating the pair of Dutch players 6-3, 6-3, and the doubles of this tournament. I won the championship for the first time in two years.