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Kunieda triumphs

London2012.Com
Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Defending champion Shingo Kunieda ended Nyasha Mharakurwa's dream of winning Africa's first medal in Wheelchair Tennis at Eton Manor yesterday.

The Zimbabwean fell to a 6-0 6-0 defeat in a second-round match that took just 36 minutes.

Mharakurwa said afterwards, "I feel good. I played calmly and I gave him a bit of trouble. The difference is he makes every ball count.

"He's still trying after two, three balls and he doesn't give you a chance to wind it up. He doesn't give you a chance in the end. He takes control."

Elsewhere in the men's competition, another Japanese player, five-time Paralympian Satoshi Saida, suffered a surprise defeat to rookie Adam Kellerman of Australia as he went down 6-3 6-2.