Tennis player Taylor Fritz advances to second round in Japan Open Tennis Championships

TOKYO: American tennis player Taylor Fritz advanced to the second round of Japan Open Tennis Championships with a 6-2, 6-7(2), 6-1 victory over Australia's James Duckworth, here on Wednesday.

The third seed Fritz was forced to pull out ahead of the Seoul event last week due to Covid-19. After a week in full quarantine, he was cleared to make the two-hour flight to Tokyo in the nick of time, the morning of his opening-round match against Duckworth.

"(I'm feeling) better than I thought I would be."I don't feel amazing, but I'm really happy that I was able to go through all that and still show up and win my match,'' Fritz said in his post-match press conference. IANS

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