Nick Kyrgios reaches Japan Open quarter-finals, Dan Evans squanders six match points in Tokyo loss

Nick Kyrgios moved into the quarter-finals of the Japan Open with a three-set win over Kamil Majchrzak. Kyrgios won 3-6 6-2 6-2 in 81 minutes and will play Hiroki Moriya or Taylor Fritz in the last eight in Tokyo. Ad The Wimbledon finalist lost the first set after he was broken in the third game, but came back in the second set by breaking Majchrzak twice.

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The Serbian trailed Evans 0-40 at 5-4 in the final set but he produced a sensational comeback as his back was against the wall. Raducanu pulls out of Transylvania Open with wrist injury ‘I played as well as I can’ – Djokovic cruises past Garin at Astana Open He missed a match point of his own at 6-5, before winning the final four points of the tie-break to take the win. “That was the first time I did that,” Kecmanovic said about his saved match points.

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