Oct 4 (OPTA) – Seeds Progress from the ATP World Tour 500, Japan Open Men’s Singles matches on Thursday .. Seeds .. Seed Round Rslt Opponent Score 1 Novak Djokovic (SRB) qtr to play 5-Lucas Pouille (FRA) (start 06:00) 2nd won Go Soeda (JPN) 6-3 7-5 1st won Alexei Popyrin (AUS) 6-4 6-2 2 Borna Coric (CRO) 1st lost Taro Daniel (JPN) 6-4 4-6 7-6(5) 3 David Goffin (BEL) qtr to play Hyeon Chung (KOR) (start 10:00) 2nd won Denis Shapovalov (CAN) 7-6(5) 7-6(2) 1st won Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP) 1-6 7-6(8) 6-0 4 Benoit Paire (FRA) 1st lost Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 6-2 6-2 5 Lucas Pouille (FRA) qtr to play 1-Novak Djokovic (SRB) (start 06:00) 2nd won Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) 6-1 6-2 1st won Hubert Hurkacz (POL) 6-4 6-3 6 Marin Cilic (CRO) 2nd lost Hyeon Chung (KOR) 6-4 3-6 6-1 1st won Yuichi Sugita (JPN) 6-4 6-4 7 Taylor Fritz (USA) 1st lost Reilly Opelka (USA) 6-3 6-4 8 Alex De Minaur (AUS) 1st lost Lloyd Harris (RSA) 6-3 6-7(6) 7-6(8) (Note : all times are GMT)