{"id":107678,"date":"2025-08-16T18:33:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again"},"modified":"2025-08-16T18:52:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:52:59","slug":"j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again","title":{"rendered":"J60 Kigali: Nakajima and Xiang Reach Finals Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>First-week J 60 Kigali winners Kazuki Nakajima of Japan and China\u2019s Xiang Liu continued their impressive run, securing spots in the finals of the second week after beating Matteo Santoro and Israel&#8217;s Chira Dvir respectively in semifinal matches held at center court of IPRC-Kigali Ecology Tennis Courts on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Xiang, seeded No 4, faced a stern test from second seed Dvir. After claiming the opening set 6-3, Xiang stumbled in the second, losing 2-6 as Dvir forced the game to the third and decisive set which went dow to the wire. The pair were 6-all before Xiang dominated the tiebreak which he won 7-0 to seal the win.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys\u2019 singles, Nakajima met Italy\u2019s Matteo Santoro and displayed solid control from start to finish. The Japanese player broke Santoro\u2019s serve at key moments to take the match 6-4, 6-2, advancing to yet another final without dropping a set.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the girls\u2019 draw, top seed Jannat Chiripal, who fell short in last week\u2019s semifinal, earned redemption with a hard-fought comeback over third seed and last week finalist Liza Ritcherman. After losing the first set 1-6, Chiripal bounced back strongly to win second set 6-3 and final set 6-4, setting up a final clash with Xiang with whom they won the girls doubles title on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys\u2019 bracket, Alexander Groet advanced to the final after receiving a walkover from Amerigo Ambrosi whp reported ill on Friday. He will now face Nakajima in what promises to be a high-intensity showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Eaden-Zack Harron and Juliusz Stanczyk claimed their second straight boys&#8217; double title this time on a walkover following Ambrosi&#8217;s withdrawal due to illness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. First-week J 60 Kigali winners Kazuki Nakajima of Japan and China\u2019s Xiang Liu continued their impressive run, securing spots in the finals of the second week after beating Matteo Santoro and Israel&#8217;s Chira Dvir respectively in semifinal matches held at center court of IPRC-Kigali Ecology Tennis Courts on Friday. Xiang, seeded No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":107677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[7294,7761,758],"class_list":["post-107678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-itf-world-tennis-tour-juniors","tag-j60-kigali","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>J60 Kigali: Nakajima and Xiang Reach Finals Again - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"First-week J 60 Kigali winners Kazuki Nakajima of Japan and China\u2019s Xiang Liu continued their impressive run, securing s ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"J60 Kigali: Nakajima and Xiang Reach Finals Again\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First-week J 60 Kigali winners Kazuki Nakajima of Japan and China\u2019s Xiang Liu continued their impressive run, securing s ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-16T18:33:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-16T18:52:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/08\/sm_1755357694.967849.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"J60 Kigali: Nakajima and Xiang Reach Finals Again\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-16T18:33:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-16T18:52:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again\"},\"wordCount\":299,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/08\/sm_1755357694.967849.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors\",\"J60 Kigali\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again\",\"name\":\"J60 Kigali: Nakajima and Xiang Reach Finals Again - Rwanda\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/08\/sm_1755357694.967849.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-16T18:33:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-16T18:52:59+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"First-week J 60 Kigali winners Kazuki Nakajima of Japan and China\u2019s Xiang Liu continued their impressive run, securing s ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/08\/sm_1755357694.967849.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/08\/sm_1755357694.967849.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":750,\"caption\":\"J60 Kigali: Nakajima and Xiang Reach Finals Again\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"J60 Kigali: Nakajima and Xiang Reach Finals Again\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/\",\"name\":\"Rwanda\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"J60 Kigali: Nakajima and Xiang Reach Finals Again - Rwanda","description":"First-week J 60 Kigali winners Kazuki Nakajima of Japan and China\u2019s Xiang Liu continued their impressive run, securing s ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"J60 Kigali: Nakajima and Xiang Reach Finals Again","og_description":"First-week J 60 Kigali winners Kazuki Nakajima of Japan and China\u2019s Xiang Liu continued their impressive run, securing s ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again","og_site_name":"Rwanda","article_published_time":"2025-08-16T18:33:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-08-16T18:52:59+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":750,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/08\/sm_1755357694.967849.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"J60 Kigali: Nakajima and Xiang Reach Finals Again","datePublished":"2025-08-16T18:33:03+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-16T18:52:59+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again"},"wordCount":299,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/08\/sm_1755357694.967849.jpg","keywords":["ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors","J60 Kigali","Rwanda"],"articleSection":["all news","Sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again","name":"J60 Kigali: Nakajima and Xiang Reach Finals Again - Rwanda","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/08\/sm_1755357694.967849.jpg","datePublished":"2025-08-16T18:33:03+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-16T18:52:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"First-week J 60 Kigali winners Kazuki Nakajima of Japan and China\u2019s Xiang Liu continued their impressive run, securing s ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/08\/sm_1755357694.967849.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/08\/sm_1755357694.967849.jpg","width":1000,"height":750,"caption":"J60 Kigali: Nakajima and Xiang Reach Finals Again"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/j60-kigali-nakajima-and-xiang-reach-finals-again#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"J60 Kigali: Nakajima and Xiang Reach Finals Again"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/","name":"Rwanda","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}