Tennis player Kei Nishikori defeated a Slovenian player in the second round of the first round of the tour tournament, which is ranked next to the four major tournaments held in the United States, with a set count of 2: 1 and advanced to the third round.
Nishikori, who is ranked 39th in the world ranking, participated in a tour tournament with a rating following the four major tournaments held in Miami, Florida, USA, and faced the first round of the second round on the 27th.
Nishikori, who played against Slovenian Aljaž Bedene in 59th place in the world, made a series of mistakes in the first set and strokes, and was forced to 5-6 by being broken by the opponent in the 11th game which was a service game.
However, in the game immediately after, he returned a break with a sharp cross that pierced the corner of the course, and in the tiebreaker he aggressively attacked with a highly accurate return and took the first set 7-6.
The second set was dropped 5-7 due to mistakes in key points, but in the final third set, the flow was drawn with a shot that interweaves slow and fast, and Nishikori took a set count of 2 pairs at 6-4. I advanced to the 3rd round with 1.
In the third round, Nishikori will face Greece's 22-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas, who is fifth in the world.