Ajax Tadehara managed to advance one round in Samsun on Sunday winning his -100kg match against Aydn Caliskan or Turkey with an ippon before being defeated in the round of 16 by Maxim Rakov of Kazakhstan scoring a waza-ari and a yuko.

In the women’s +78kg division Nina Cutro-Kelly was defeated by Puerto Rican Melissa Mojica on a waza-ari. None of the four US women competing this weekend were able to win a match while US men were 2-4.

The Judo Grand Slam stop in Baku, Azerbaijan arrives on May 6th while in between the US Senior Nationals will be held in Irving, Texas on April 9th and 10th and the Pan American Judo Championships are in Havana April 27th through the 30th.