ATP - Tokyo 1R continued

First round continued in Tokyo.

2022 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, an ATP 500 tournament, on Hard, in Tokyo, Japan, 3-9 October 2022.

Not held in 2020-2021 due to COVID

2019 champion (not defending):

Novak Djokovic (1) who defeated qualifier John Millman 6-3 6-2

2nd seed Cameron Norrie withdrew after the main draw was published due to illness, and was replaced by lucky loser Hiroki Moriya.

Borna Coric was instated as 9th seed and moved in the draw to the place previously occupied by Norrie.

Moriya took the place in the draw previously occupied by Coric.

First round results:

- Jaume Munar defeated Casper Ruud (1) 6-3 6-3

- Mackenzie McDonald defeated wildcard Kaichi Uchida 7-6(4) 6-7(2) 6-3

- Kwon Soon-woo defeated Alex de Minaur (6) 6-3 6-2

- Daniel Evans (8) defeated Radu Albot 6-7(3) 6-1 6-4

- Nick Kyrgios (5) defeated Tseng Chun-hsin 6-3 6-1

- Kamil Majchrzak defeated qualifier Sho Shimabukuro 7-6(2) 6-2 

- Lucky loser Hiroki Moriya defeated qualifier Yuta Shimizu 6-1 6-3

- Qualifier Rio Noguchi defeated qualifier Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4 3-6 7-6(1)

- Borna Coric (9) defeated Thanasi Kokkinakis 6-4 7-6(4)