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Date: 14 Oct 2004 |  Photographer: None / Not Applicable
Date: 14 Oct 2004 |  Photographer: None / Not Applicable
Date: 14 Oct 2004 |  Photographer: None / Not Applicable
Date: 14 Oct 2004 |  Photographer: None / Not Applicable
Date: 14 Oct 2004 |  Photographer: None / Not Applicable
Date: 14 Oct 2004 |
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| 13 Oct 2004 - ITF - Will Fletcher | |
| Cohen Bows Out of Osaka Mayor's Cup |
Day 3 of the Osaka Mayor’s Cup World Super Junior Tennis Championships saw the first major upset of the tournament as Julia Cohen bowed out of the Grade A tournament in the second round. A determined Yi Chen (TPE) ambushed the second seed from the United States in the first set and, although Cohen’s form improved, she was always playing catch up. The unseeded Chen took advantage of Cohen’s slow start defeating the American 60 64.
Apart from Chen, no other giant killers have emerged from the second round matches of the girls’ singles. Fourteen seeds cruised through to the last 16 today with only Austria’s Stefanie Rath conceding a set to the tenacious Japanese qualifier Ayumi Yoshida who she eventually overcame 36 63 60. Top seed Yung-Jan Chan from Chinese Taipei made light work of her second round tie thrashing Sweden’s Nadja Roma 61 60.
The boys’ singles draw mirrors the girls’ with fourteen seeds through to the last sixteen. The favourites, Korea’s Sun-Yong Kim and Woong-Sun Jun, Sergei Bubka (UKR) and Chu-Huan Yi (TPE) all made it through to the third round. However, an upset was on the cards when Yi began slowly against another determined Japanese hopeful, Ryo Sekiguchi. Nevertheless, the third seed refused to concede more than the first set coming back to win 36 64 63.
Lower seeds Abdullah Magdas from Kuwait and Thailand’s Kirati Siributwong lost to unseeded Japanese players who are bidding to lift the penultimate Grade A tournament of the 2004 ITF Junior Circuit on home soil. But realistically the majority of the host nation’s hopes rest on the shoulders of Takanobu Fujii (JPN). However, the seventh seed will have to be at his best to advance to the latter stages as there will be no easy matches tomorrow. The winners will proceed to the quarterfinals.
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