Information before the match
After 8 days of competition, Tennis Department at Washington Open 2021 has officially closed. At this time, the felt ball village will return to the tournaments of ATP Tour.
At the end of August, the last Grand Slam of the year is the US Open in the year that will begin to start. Therefore, the players are moving to attend the tournaments running on the hard ground. Among these prominent are Washington Open, the tournament held in the US.
Today and tomorrow, the first round of Washington Open will officially start. The focus of this match is the competition between Kei Nishikori and Sam Querrey. The two players will encounter each other at about 6:00 am tomorrow (August 3).
Nishikori in the past held the fourth position in the ATP rankings in March 2015. This is also the highest year in the career of the Japanese player when he won the US Open runner -up. Currently, this is still the only Asian athlete ever in a Grand Slam final as well as ever attending ATP World Tour Finals twice when reaching the semi -finals of 2014 and 2016 seasons.
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Even so, at the age of 31, Nishikori was declined. Currently, he is ranked 69th on the world chart. This year, the performance of the Japanese tennis player is not good when he only won 13 matches while losing to 19.
On the other side of the battle line, Sam Querrey is holding 70th in the ATP rankings. From the beginning of the year until now, the 33-year-old American player also played quite little, with a victory record of 9-13. In the past, Nishikori and Querrey had met 10 times, in which the Japanese star had 6 victories.
Battle information Kei Nishikori vs Sam Querrey
– Tournament: Washington Open 2021 – Round 1
– The yard: hard
– Time: About 06:00 on August 3
– Location: Washington (USA)
