Month: November 2016

Nishikori loses to Cilic in straight sets in Swiss Indoors final

summary

Kei Nishikori’s hopes of a claiming his second title of the season were wrecked with a straight-sets defeat to Croatia’s Marin Cilic in the final of the Swiss Indoors on Sunday. Nishikori, who is now back to an equal career high of world No. 4, had to make do with his fourth runner-up finish of the season but was upbeat despite the disappointing loss. Tour veteran Cilic, who is now back in the world top 10, fired 28 winners, including six aces, in his second victory of the year over Nishikori, having prevailed on the lawns of Wimbledon in September.

 

opinion

I watched this game and nisikori’s playing. He didn’t get good condition in the first set. This is within my expectations because I have watched recent his game. I think Nishikori’s catching up in the second set was wonderful, but he was completely overwhelmed by Cilici. I’m very disappointed at the result. To know the overseas reaction to this game, I searched reaction by using internet. Most of  the opinions are that there are a lot of misshot in Nishikori’s playing. One example of opinion, they said” he couldn’t  gets point in a important situation”. I saw many opinions and I felt they have dissatisfaction of Nishikori’ playing. However, it means they are many people who expect Nishikori. His playing has the ability to fascinate people. So many tennis fan want to see his win on the big stage.  I hope he win the title next competition.

Karate debuts Olympics

Summary
Karate is going to be added in the Olympic games for the 2020 Tokyo, with skateboarding, climbing and baseball-softball. Karate was born in Okinawa in the 15th century. It is influenced by Chinese martial arts. Judo and taekwondo are already included in Olympic games , but karate hasn’t. So it struggled to make the case for inclusion. The reason why karate has been delayed into Olympic games is divisions in the movement around the world, with stalwarts long preferring to adhere to their interpretation rather than to work together to create an global art form.
Opinion
I agree with including karate into Olympic because judo and taekwondo are already added. Japanese and Korean martial art is official sport of Olympic why not karate? Karate has own world championship like judo and taekwondo. I think it is not problem for Okinawa martial art in Olympic.

Nobak Djokovic ready to fight as Andy Murray targets number one spot at Paris Masters

Summary

Djokovic has finished four of the past five years as the world number one and will hold on to the top ranking if he reaches the final in Paris. However, since Djokovic has completed the career Grand Slam and decreased his motivation, Murray has closed the gap dramatically in terms of points over the past four months and now trails by just 415, with 1,000 on offer to the winner in Paris, but Djokovic has won for the past three years on the indoor courts of Bercy. Murray said that I’ve never won there before, so to just expect that you’re going to win the tournament would be silly.

 

Opinion

I believe that it is very challenging for Kei Nishikori as a Japanese tennis star to defeat the new number one player in order to won a Grand Slam and become the world number one player. As Djokovic said, Murray is playing maybe the best tennis he’s ever played, very constant, very strong. His playstyle is very defensive. He always runs very hard and catches balls. On the other hand, Kei’s playstyle is very aggressive. He offences with errors risk. Since Murray is good at defensive tennis, it is difficult for Kei to defeat Murray with his risky play. However, I hope that Kei will win Grand Slams and become the world number one player as a Japanese tennis fun.

Nishikori loses to Cilic in straight sets in Swiss Indoors final

summary

Kei Nishikori’s hopes of a claiming his second title of the season were wrecked with a straight-sets defeat to Croatia’s Marin Cilic in the final of the Swiss Indoors on Sunday. Cilic who beat Nishikori in the 2014 U.S. Open final. Now, Nishikori is back to an equal career high of world No.4, and Cilic is now back in the world top 10. After the match finished, Nishikori said “My opponent made a good  start and that put me under pressure. After I allowed him to break he played offensive tennis and was relaxed.”

opinion

I respect Kei Nishikori because he gave Japanese children hope. Japanese tennis player couldn’t get the outcome worldwide before. For the reason, Japanese people is not taller than foreign people. Nishikori has same problem, and his lower back is a ticking time bomb. But, he bravely has a match with foreign tennis player. Then, he is now world No.4, and finished second in the 2014 U.S. Open final for the first time as Japanese. In the same way, a Japanese Major League player is doing well now. For example, Ichiro gained a worldwide reputation. He was firstly hesitant because it had previously been worn by pitching star Randy Johnson. But,  his trepidation was unfounded, as he had a remarkable 2001 season, accumulating a rookie-record 242 hits. Thereafter, Japanese baseball player began to win high praise for skills in the U.S. Now, Nishikori is same position with Ichiro in that Japanese sports player can play an active part worldwide. Like this, I want a lot of Japanese children to persue their dream.

karate integrating into Olympics

Karate will join as new sports for the Tokyo Olympic. Karate is indigenous fighting style. Karate was born in Okinawa in 15th century. It was influenced by Chinese martial arts. The movement that they would want karate to include into the Olympic game has been delayed. The reason is that there was a divisions in the movement around the world, with stalwarts long preferring to adhere to their interpretation rather than to work together to create an global art form.
I think integrating karate into the Olympics has a great meaning. Karate is famous for not only Japan but also all over the world. So I think this movement will be attracted by a lot of people. Olympic is a big event. It has a various faces, such as economics, politics, cultures, and so on. I think sports has a huge power which can connect countries even if the world situation is unstable. So integrating karate, which has long history in Japan, will be an occasion to connect Japan and other countries. In addition, I think tourists will increase for Tokyo Olympic, this will effect to Japanese economy, too.

New Olympic games in Tokyo

The Tokyo Olympic game add to Karate, Skateboarding, climbing and baseball-softball for the 2020. Karate will join to 80 competitors. Karate spots was born in Okinawa in the 15th century, and it is said that it is close to Chinese material arts. Why traditional karate has not been added to the Olympic sport? By the way, judo is to debut at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964. The reason was in the movement around the world, with stalwarts long preferring to their opinion rather than to work together to create a global form.

In the world, there are only a few sports which have been adopted into the Olympic games. What criteria must a sport have in order to “fit” into the Olympics? The criteria would include thinks like competition population, tradition, and popularity. I would like Cheer- Dance to be added to the Olympics. Dance has become a compulsory unit in Phys. Ed. at school, and attention has been drawn to the competition. Also, Cheer-Dance isn’t just about dancing. It requires teamwork, courtesy, and mental strength, which helps young people learn a lot to grow. I think that by adding Cheer- Dance to the Olympics, our society will be positively impacted.

Japan to play host to Argentina in November

Summary
Japanese rugby team which is the number one in Asia will play host to Argentina’s rugby team which is the number one in America on November 5. Japan will play four matchs in a month. The first home match on November will be the first match of the tenure of Jamie Joseph who is new head coach of Japanese rugby team. The former head coach of Japan was Eddie Jones who achieved excellent results in Rugby World Cup 2015. Joseph is also hoped to achieve excellent success in his tenure. The most recent match took place in Buenos Aires in March 2005 resulted in Argentina winning 68-36.

Opinion
We discussed “Which are better for the head coach, Japanese or foreigners?” at this week’s after reading of discussion. So I write my opinion about this question. I think that both head coachs have different merit. In other words, the right person in the right place is good way. I think that Japanese head coach is better at some sport which rooted in Japan like baseball. Because Japanese head coach has already had good method in those sports. And more, Japanese head coach knows feelings of Japanese people. In contrast, foreigners is better at some sports which didn’t root in Japan like rugby. Indeed there are some risk as foreigner don’t know feelings of Japanese people, but there is never revolution without risk.

AUT reflection #2

The article was about a famous baseball player who passed away recently because of a boat accident at the age of 24. He belonged to Miami Marlins since 2011 and he was quite famous. According to the local police, cocaine and high levels of alcohol was found in his system. Since every one on the boat passed away, no one knows for sure whether there are some relationships between the accident and those drugs,so some people believe that he died because of drunk driving.
After reading this article, we talked whether we want to live as long as we can or die while we are young. In other words,”die young stay pretty” . I would like to mention what I thought during the class.
In my opinion,at first, I thought that I don’t want to live as long as I could because I thought without being able to move by our own decision, it won’t mean that we are living. However, recently my opinion changed by seeing one woman passed away on October. She was 80 years old and she passed away because of a brain disease. Before she passed away, she lived her life with stupor for one year. I was so sorry to see her because she was actually my grandmother.
At first I was not able to understand what happened to my grandma, but by seeing her living her life with utmost efforts, even though she can’t talk, I started to realize what happened to her and became to accepted the reality. Owing to her efforts, all of our family members were able to understand and prepare for the last moment little by little to say goodbye to her with smile. Of course we were too sad to do that, I still believe that we were able to have great time with her. Then, I started to think that living the life until the very last moment will really help others to accept the reality and let them prepare. I really respect my grandmother who have done that for us.
People might say that not being able to move our bodies by ourselves doesn’t mean that you are living your life. However, by supporting that person, we can feel sympathy and think that we are living with that person. I really appreciate my grandmother’s efforts and that really made me change my opinion toward living life.