But only his coaches, the men who had worked with him here and over the last three months to get him back into top-level playing shape so quickly, who tinkered with the strokes, fixed the footwork, and kept him believing in himself, could understand exactly what this win meant.
Matsuyama was impressed with Katsura and began teaching her top level play.
All these years playing at the top level and playing many matches that were deciding titles, the grand slam events, that necessary experience helped me to overcome any kind of loss or disappointment.
"The best scenario is to be playing at the top level to play international football.
In three tournaments, she has beaten Venus Williams (No. 3), Marion Bartoli (14) twice, Victoria Azarenka (9) and Svetlana Kuznetsova (6), re-establishing herself quickly on the tour's top level and playing so well that at times it seems as if she never left.
No club from Amazonas has competed in top-level play in Brazil in thirty years.
Once concern that plagues this, the first generation of so-called cyber athletes, is shared with their counterparts in physical sport: for how long will their minds and bodies be quick enough to enable top-level play.
He is a rare sporting marvel, a child prodigy who not only fulfilled the awesome potential he first showed when he broke into India's team at 16, but then showed the desire and durability that allowed him to maintain his top-level play later on in his career.
For the most part, though, the Australians are batsmen brought up to hit through the line, against a Kookaburra ball that softens very quickly, on flat pitches at the top level: they play round their front pad, hands thrust forward rather than letting the ball come to them, and have an almost instinctive urge to get the bat on everything that is sent down.
