Japan Open News
The 30-year-old Indian will next face Chinese Taipei's Chou Tien Chen, who won the bronze medal at the world championships last week, in the quarterfinal stage. Prannoy, currently ranked world number 18, has beaten Chen in their last two meetings, but overall, he is 3-4 behind.
Djokovic registered a comfortable 6-3, 6-2 victory over his Australian opponent in the final match that lasted one hour and nine minutes to seal his 76th tour-level title.
The Serbian tennis maestro, on Saturday, eased past 2017 Tokyo champion David Goffin of Belgium in straight sets to book his place in the summit showdown of the tournament.
Djokovic, who is playing in the Japanese capital for the first time, is now just a victory away from earning his 10th trophy on a tournament main draw debut.
Djokovic will now lock horns with third seed David Goffin for a place in the summit showdown of the tournament.
Third seed Goffin, the 2017 Tokyo champion, has reached his seventh Tour-level quarter-final of the season and will meet South Korea’s Chung Hyeon.
Djokovic will now lock horns with fifth-seed Lucas Pouille of France for a place in the semi-final of the ongoing tournament.
Last week, Praneeth had made it to the semi-finals of the Japan Open, only to see himself going down against top-seeded Kento Momota of Japan 18-21, 12-21.
With Praneeth's defeat, India's campaign at the Japan Open has also ended.
While Praneeth defeated Indonesia`s Tommy Sugiarto to make it to the last four, Japan`s Akane Yamaguchi defeated Sindhu in straight games to knock her out of the competition on Friday.
With the win, the Olympic silver medallist has now extended the head-to-head record against Ohori to 8-0.
Sindhu will next lock horns with Aya Ohori of Japan for a place in the quarter-finals of the tournament.
Before Wednesday's match, the duo had faced each other five times in the past, with Srikanth emerging victorious on four occasions.
Praneeth hardly broke a sweat as he eased past Kenta Nishimoto of Japan 21-17, 21-13 in the first round of the tournament that lasted just 42 minutes.
Heavy fog and small waves on Thursday meant the start of the four-day surfing test event at Shidashita Beach, some 60 kilometres north-west of Tokyo, was delayed for an hour.
Other than the Olympic Stadium and the Olympic and Paralympic athletes village, Tokyo Metropolitan Government is building eight new competition venues for the Games.
Medvedev has defeated Milos Raonic and Diego Schwartzmann en route to Sunday`s final and did not drop a single service game in his last three matches.
Gasquet’s spirit appeared broken as Nishikori comfortably broke the 32-year-old’s serve at the first time, wrapping up the second set in just 33 minutes.
Indian Shuttler Kidambi Srikanth was knocked out of Japan open by Korea's Lee Dong Keun in the quarterfinals on Friday.
Indian shuttler P V Sindhu was knocked out of the Japan Open by Gao Fangjie of China in straight sets in the pre-quarterfinals.
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