Kei Nishikori and Yoshihito Nishioka lost in a row in the men's singles between Japan and Argentina in the ATP Cup, a national tennis match, and Japan lost.
In the men's national competition, the "ATP Cup", a total of 12 countries including Japan will be divided into 4 groups to compete in a round robin, and 2 singles games and 1 doubles game will be won first out of 3 games. The team that wins will win.
The first place in each group will advance to the semi-finals.
Japan, which has already lost to Russia, played against Argentina on the 6th.
The match was originally scheduled for the 4th, but was postponed due to the hotel staff, where the players were staying, tested positive for the new coronavirus.
Nishioka participated in the men's singles in the first match, but lost with a straight with a set count of 0-2.
In the second match, Nishikori, who ranked 41st in the world, played against Diego Schwartzman, who ranked 9th in the world.
In the first set, Nishikori was attacked by a tough course and turned passively, but he couldn't get a break point even once in the opponent's service game, so he couldn't keep pace and dropped 1-6.
After this, Nishikori regained the second set 7-6 after a tiebreaker, but dropped the final third set 0-6 and lost with a set count of 1-2.
As a result, Japan lost to Argentina and became the bottom of the group with two consecutive losses.