Masaru Shimabukuro makes the top 8 in the first challenger tournament of the season, Yoshihito Nishioka and Nishikori lose in the first round[キャンベラ・チャレンジャー／テニス]
In the men’s singles quarterfinals of the ATP Tour lower tournament “Workday Canberra International” (Challenger 125/Canberra, Australia/January 5-10/Total prize money: $225,000/hard court), Masashi Shimabukuro (Arisawa Manufacturing) lost to qualifying winner Rafael Hodal (Spain) 2-6, 4-6. Game time is 59 minutes. ~[YouTube]Sho Shimabukuro (Sho Shimabukuro) vs Chris Rodesch | CANBERRA 2026: WhatAshot ~ This is the 24th time in total that the 28-year-old Shimabukuro has advanced to the top eight in the same event at the Challenger tournament, following the last time he played in Hyogo (Challenger 75/Indoor Hard Court) in November last year. In this tournament, Shimabukuro defeated wild card (recommended by the organizer) Edward Winter (Australia) 6-4, 6-1 in the first round, and in the second round he defeated qualifying winner Chris Rodesch (Luxembourg) -6 (5), 7-6 (3) to advance to the final eight. In addition to Shimabukuro, Japanese singles players included third seeds Yoshihito Nishioka (Miki House) and Kei Nishikori (Uniqlo), but both lost in their first matches. *The number to the left of the name is the draw number.[ ]Numbers are seed rankings, WC is wild card (recommended by the organizer), Q is qualifying winner
■Men’s singles 2nd round ○29 Masaru Shimabukuro (Japan/Arisawa Manufacturing) 7-6(5) 7-6(3) ●31 Chris Rodesch (Luxembourg)[Q]
■Men’s singles 1st round●24 Yoshihito Nishioka (Japan/Miki House)[3] 6-2 1-6 5-7 ○23 Kilian Jacquet (France) ○29 Masaru Shimabukuro (Japan/Arisawa Manufacturing) 6-4 6-1 ●30 Edward Winter (Australia)[WC]
●2 Kei Nishikori (Japan/Uniqlo) 1-6 2-2 Ret. ○1 Vito Kopšiva (Czech Republic)[1]
■Men’s doubles 1st round●4 Yuichiro Inui/Tomohiro Masabayashi (Team REC) 5-7 2-6 ○3 Luka Mikrut/Luka Pavlovic (Croatia/France) ■1st qualifying round●1 Yosuke Watanuki (Japan/SBC Medical Group)[1] 6-3 2-6 3-6 ○2 Mitchell Krueger (USA)
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