A new tennis team tournament was held in Chiba prefecture where amateurs and professionals can participate without barriers, and a match was held by professional tennis player Takao Suzuki, who is retiring from active duty in this tournament.
This tennis tournament was held by former professional tennis player coaches to strengthen players and promote competition in response to the successive cancellations of domestic tournaments due to the influence of the new coronavirus.
The tournament was a team competition, and 10 teams including high school students, college students, business teams, and teams of professional players participated.
The tournament began in Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture on the 10th, and Takao Suzuki, who will retire from active duty in this tournament, appeared in the semi-final match on the 11th.
44-year-old Suzuki played an active part in the aggressive play style of serve and volley, and is the player who won 41 wins, the most in Japan's history, in the men's national / regional competition.
Among the fans, at the 2006 tour tournament, the match that was unfortunately defeated against Roger Federer of Switzerland, who was No. 1 in the world ranking at that time, was sticking to the tiebreaker of the third set, and it is still talked about.
In the match on the 11th, he played in a one-set match against 24-year-old Naoki Nakagawa, who won the All Japan Championship last year in singles, and although he lost 2-6, he played aggressively on the net like Suzuki until the end. I was showing.
Suzuki said, "Through this kind of tournament where professionals and amateurs can play against each other, when young players fight against strong opponents in the future, for example, they need to have their own characteristics such as bargaining, serve and volley. I'm happy. "
At the venue, efforts were also made to distribute the video of the match with the cooperation of people who have many registrants on the video posting site and followers of SNS with the aim of raising awareness of this tournament.
The person in charge of the tournament said, "I think the young players were very inspiring because of the topic of Suzuki's last active match. I would like to continue to have players of various ages participate in the Japanese tennis world. I was talking.