On January 4, Beijing time, Chinese tennis player Wu Yiyu posted his passport through social media and was about to fly overseas to return to the international arena, which aroused strong concern among netizens.
Wu's last appearance at the international arena was at an ATP challenge in Zhangjiagang in March 2019, after which he underwent minimally invasive surgery on his right elbow and recovered for more than a year. In September 2020, Wu Yiyu chose to make a comeback at the Changsha leg of the China Tennis Tour, and returned to the field after a year and a half to win the men's singles championship. Since then, Wu Yiyu has been invincible in the Central Tour venue, and in less than two years, he has won 7 men's singles championship trophies, including the 2021 Mid-Tour Finals. However, Wu Yihao's excellent performance in the domestic arena did not win the support and affirmation of the fans, and the voices questioning his "waste of talent" and "only nest horizontal" were endless.
At the beginning of the rise, the fans' expectations for Wu Yiyu gradually dissipated as he left the international arena for nearly three years. Although Wu Yiyu is the second US Open junior double in history and the first Grand Slam junior men's singles champion in Chinese mainland, although Wu Yiyu won the ATP Tour in his second year of professional career, and although Wu Yixun won the silver medal by beating many famous players at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, the professional tennis world is so cruel that three years of non-achievement will make you forget. Perhaps whether Wu Yiyu has been bitter about not participating in international competitions in the past three years, whether there are many difficulties that others cannot understand, but the best period of wasting points and improving rankings is doomed to make him lose at the starting line compared with foreign players of the same age. Fortunately, for the 22-year-old Wu Yiyu, there is still time, as long as he can go out and continuously improve his strength, the future is still worth looking forward to.