The Osaka Mayor's Cup - World Super Junior Tennis Championships, to use its modest full title, has been a focal Grade A event in October for many years. Five Brits here - the one surprise to me being Harry Wendelken, who finishes his junior career shortly. Amarni Banks plays a similarly ranked player from the Northern Mariana Islands
In the only other singles match with British interest today Lui won to set up a match against the 16th seed, whose record is encouragingly modest for a seed here
Boys R1 (L64)
Lui Maxted d. (Q) Daiki Yoshimura (JPN) 6-4 6-3
(13) Harry Wendelken v (Q) Sohma Nakagomi (JPN)
(15) Taiyo Yamanaka (JPN) d. (Q) William Nolan 6-4 5-7 7-6(1)
French player, Diane Parry (born 2002), won this event in the girls, and takes over the junior ranking number one spot (although, to be fair, last week's number one made the final of the 25k at Waco (Leylah Fernandez) and is now top-250 in the adults - Diane is top-350).
The boys was also won by a French player, Mayot (born 2002).
