Kei Nishikori advanced to the fourth round for the first time in two years at the French Open men's singles tennis.
Nishikori, 49th in the world ranking, played against Henri Laaksonen of Switzerland in the 150th place in the world in the third round of men's singles on the 4th.
Larksonen had the momentum to win from the qualifying and defeat the 11th seed player in the second round, and in the early stages, the development of keeping the service game with each other continued.
Nishikori broke his opponent's serve first in the 7th game, but the next game was regained and the 1st set was entangled to 5-5.
However, Larsonen, who had a pain in his left leg during the match, couldn't chase the ball so much, and Nishikori took the lead 6-5 after playing the 11th game of his opponent's serve for more than 10 minutes in a row. did.
Immediately after, the game was interrupted for about 40 minutes due to rain, but Nishikori kept the game after resuming and took the first set 7-5.
After that, the opponent abstained in the middle of the first game of the second set, and Nishikori advanced to the fourth round for the first time in two years.
Nishikori fought 5 sets in both the 1st and 2nd rounds, which took about 4 hours in both games, but the match time in the 3rd round was 58 minutes.
In the 4th round, we will face Germany's Alexander Zverev in 6th place in the world.