The US competitors on the first day of the Judo grand slam event in Baku went 1-3 with no one advancing past the round of 32. Angelica Delgado lost in the first round of the women’s -52kg competition on penalties to Mi-Ri Kim of South Korea while Aaron Kunihiro lost his opening match to Kin Ting Yu of Hong Kong on an ippon. Adonis Diaz was able to win his opening match via ippon over Eisa Majrashi of Saudi Arabia. Diaz didn’t last long though as he lost in the second round to Arif Bagirov of Belarus by an ippon.

Saturday’s competition will involve both Leilani Akiyama and Hannah Martin in the women’s -63kg division and Nicholas Delpopolo in the men’s -73kg division.

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