The world's top-ranked doubles team of Ayaka Takahashi and Misaki Matsutomo, who won gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics, will take aim at another Super Series title at the annual Japan Open, which runs from Sept. 19-24 at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. "It is tough to ...
It was a cruel reality check for Miu Hirano as her surging run of form came to a shuddering end in the Japan Open quarterfinals, but the 17-year-old vowed to rebuild her game to again challenge China's top players. Her straight-games defeat (7-11, 8-11, 5-11, ...
Sixteen-year-old Mima Ito relinquished a 2-0 lead against 2014 and 2015 world junior champion Wang Manyu, bowing out of the Japan Open in the women's singles quarterfinals on Saturday. Ito made a bright start, but threw away chances to sway the match and with it ...
Third seed Kasumi Ishikawa went out in the first round of the Japan Open on Friday, losing 4-1 to China's Wang Manyu in the women's singles. Ishikawa, who lost in the quarterfinals at the world championships to top-ranked Ding Ning last month, came up short ...
Teenager Tomokazu Harimoto failed to reach the main draw of the Japan Open after losing in the third round of men's singles qualifiers on Thursday. The 13-year-old, who became the youngest player to reach the last eight of the world championships earlier this month, lost ...
Kosuke Hagino exacted swift revenge over Daiya Seto to win the men's 200-meter individual medley at the Japan Open on Sunday. A night after he was beaten by Seto in the 400 IM, the Rio Olympic champion touched in 1 minute, 56.30 seconds at Tatsumi ...
Big-serving Australian Nick Kyrgios came back from a set down to capture the Japan Open title with a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 win over Belgium's David Goffin in Sunday's final. World No. 15 Kyrgios, who arrived in Tokyo with a reputation as the enfant terrible of ...
Belgium's David Goffin set up a Japan Open final showdown with Australian Nick Kyrgios after beating Croatia's Marin Cilic 7-5, 6-4 in Saturday's semifinal. Goffin, who had already beaten 2014 U.S. Open champion Cilic twice this year, looked to be in trouble at Ariake Colosseum ...
Australian world No. 15 Nick Kyrgios showcased the full range of his mercurial talents to reach the Japan Open semifinals with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Luxembourg's Gilles Muller on Friday. Kyrgios, whose volatile on-court antics have earned him a reputation as the bad boy ...
French world No. 8 Gael Monfils overcame a second-set hiccup to beat longtime friend Gilles Simon for the first time in four years on Thursday and advance to the Japan Open quarterfinals. Monfils won 6-1, 6-4 to improve to 2-6 in his career against his ...
Kei Nishikori went from dominant to debilitated in a span of five minutes at the Japan Open on Wednesday as an injury forced him to pull out in the first set of his second-round match against Joao Sousa of Portugal. With two service breaks in ...
Title contenders Nick Kyrgios and Gael Monfils won their first matches of the Japan Open on Tuesday, both casually disposing of their lowly ranked opponents in straight sets. Traveling well at a career-high 15th in the world, the 21-year-old Australian Kyrgios played with a self-assured ...
