SAITAMA, Japan - Keisuke Honda made sure Japan became the first team to qualify for the 2014 World Cup by calmly converting a stoppage-time penalty Tuesday to secure a 1-1 draw against Australia. 49ers Jerseys 2020 . Tommy Oar had given Australia a 1-0 lead in the 82nd minute with a lob over Japan goalkeeper Eiji Kawasahima but a handball by Matthew McKay in the last minute of regulation set up the penalty for Honda, who beat Australia goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer with a left-footed shot into the top of the net. Japan needed at least a point to clinch a spot in next years World Cup in Brazil from Group B in Asian qualifying. "I have achieved one of the goals I was hired for," Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni said. "But just qualifying is not enough. We have a very strong commitment to playing well so we will aim even higher in Brazil." Honda had missed Japans last two matches — both defeats — but was his teams best player on Tuesday, even before the goal that saved Japan having to wait for the result of a later match between Oman and Iraq to see if it would qualify. "Honda is a special player," Zaccheroni said. "He has two important qualities: hes strong physically and hes strong mentally. That was his first full 90-minute game since November and he was spectacular." Both teams had great scoring chances in the first half, but Schwarzer got his right hand up to block Shinji Kagawas shot from close range. Later, Brett Holman fed a through ball to Robbie Kruse who fired a right-footed shot that Kawashima knocked down with an outstretched arm. Japan, eager to secure qualification at home, started the second half strong with Kagawa grazing the crossbar with an angled shot in the 59th minute. Just when the match looked set to finish in a goalless draw, Oar silenced the crowd of 62,172 when he beat a Japanese defender on the wing and sent a lob toward the net that dipped inside the bar and past the flailing arm of Kawashima. Schwarzer then stopped Yuto Nagatomos shot from close range in the 80th minute before Oar put the visitors ahead minutes later. Australia, bidding for a third straight World Cup appearance, is second in Group B with seven points with two matches remaining. The first two spots earn automatic berths in Brazil. "We probably just deserved to get the three points," captain Lucas Neill said. "Its a bitter pill to swallow to concede a penalty at the death. We knew this is a fantastic team were playing against, a very tough place to come and get points. We would have been delighted to get three, but it sets us up nicely now with one." Australias next two matches are both at home against Jordan in Melbourne on June 11 and Iraq on June 18 in Sydney. 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LONDON -- Once deemed the next big thing in tennis, 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro grew so frustrated after needing three operations on his left wrist that he considered quitting the sport last year at age 27.Too many setbacks.Too many comebacks.He stayed the course, though, and on Tuesday, ranked only 165th, del Potro played his first Grand Slam match in 2 1/2 years, moving into the second round at Wimbledon with a 6-1, 7-5, 6-0 victory over Stephane Robert, a Frenchman ranked 79th.Im enjoying tennis again. Im starting to talk about tennis and (not) about my wrist. Thats important, del Potro said. I would like to stay here on tour for (a few more) years. I think Im close to get that goal.This is del Potros first appearance at the All England Club since losing to Novak Djokovic in the 2013 semifinals.In January 2014, the Argentine lost in the second round of the Australian Open, then two months later had wrist surgery that sidelined him for the rest of that season. Two other procedures cut short his 2015 schedule.Im feeling better, week by week. Im doing all my steps. ... I wake up and I can (plan) my practice and I do it, del Potro said. Thats important for my mind, as well, because Im not thinking about treatments or injuries or doctors or nothing like that.He is right-handed, but he uses his left wrist on two-handed backhands, and it is clear that he is not quite fully comfortable hitting that shot.The 6-foot-6 (1.98-meteer) Del Potros best, most imposing strokes have always been his big, flat forehand and his serve, and that is very much the case nowadays. Custom San Francisco 49ers Jerseys. Against Robert, del Potro managed to produce 20 outright winners off the forehand wing -- and zero with his backhand.Im working hard mentally, too, said del Potro, who beat Roger Federer in the U.S. Open final seven years ago, because I have to deal with some pains and some frustrations when I want to hit a good backhand, and I cannot do it.He figures to face a much sterner test in the second round against No. 4-seeded Stan Wawrinka, who has won the Australian Open and French Open once apiece.They have met five times previously, and del Potro leads the series 3-2, but the most recent encounter was back in 2012. There was one head-to-head match at Wimbledon, in 2008, which Wawrinka won in straight sets.For me, its going to be interesting to play against him. Its been many years, said Wawrinka, who advanced Tuesday by beating 18-year-old American Taylor Fritz 7-6 (4), 6-1, 6-7 (2), 6-4.For sure, I think we (are) all happy that hes back on the tour, hopefully without any injury (so) he can play for long now, Wawrinka said about del Potro. Hes always been a great champion, a great player to watch.---Follow Howard Fendrich on Twitter at http://twitter.com/HowardFendrich ' ' '