In the first round of the ATP500 Brazilian Rio Open men's singles competition on February 15, the Chinese men's tennis star of hope Shang Zhencheng held a wild card to compete, facing the world's 61st-ranked Spanish veteran Martinez, the whole game failed to cash in a break point, and finally lost the first men's singles debut of his career ATP Tour 0-2 (3-6/4-6), which was the experience gained by losing the game for shang cheng, who had been playing in low-level challenges for many years. The first step was taken for the next step in gaining a foothold on the ATP Tour.
Compared with the Chinese women's tennis early breakthrough in the top 100 singles, the current Chinese men's tennis team has not been able to open the 100 mark in singles, according to the latest world rankings, there is still a great distance from the top 100 of the ATP singles ranking: Zhang Zhizhen 310, Bai Yan 424, Li Zhe 501, Sun Fajing 655, Shang Juncheng 663. Although the 17-year-old young player Shang Juncheng has potential and a future, but if he wants to transform into the world's top master in just a few years, it can be said that the probability is not large, he has been appearing in challenges and youth-level events in the past two seasons, this Rio Open is his first time to come to the high-level tour to try his hand, perhaps with the surprise of the challenge, Shang Juncheng was particularly favored by the organizers, lucky to get a wild card to participate.
Martinez, the tour debut rival of Shang Chengcheng, is not a top master, and is from Spain in the 61st place in the world. In the first set, Martinez easily saved the serve, leaving no flaws for shang cheng, and then the second set shang cheng played very steadily, and the same save was tied. In the 3rd set, Shang Juncheng patiently looked for opportunities at the bottom line, and forced out the opponent's mistakes in the large angle of the return ball, and got a break point, but unfortunately, the opponent was a veteran of the ATP Tour for many years, with rich experience to save the break point, difficult to save. In the 4th set, Martinez in turn forced out Shang Juncheng's break point, and took the lead in breaking Shang Juncheng's serve, and the score came to 3-1. The next 4 sets of each side saved their own sets to 5-3, martinez in the 9th set of the set win 4 straight down to win the first set 6-3.
The first serve of the 2nd set of Shang Cheng could not be saved, Martinez with the starting momentum of the previous set, continuous large angle changes, so that Shang Cheng was tired of running back to the ball there was a mistake, after breaking shang juncheng's serve, Martinez took advantage of the situation to save 2-0, and the subsequent game the two sides failed to break the opponent's serve, of which the 6th set shang cheng cheng got the opponent's two break points were not cashed in, as the game drew to an end, the business was difficult to find opportunities, and finally Martinez won the game 6-4 with the only break.
Shang Juncheng is also a young man from a sports family, his father Shang Yi was the main force of the Beijing Guoan men's football team, and his mother Wu Na was the mixed doubles champion of the 1997 World Table Tennis Championships, who had a good sports gene from an early age and laid the foundation for his future growth. For Shang Juncheng, if you want to carry the leading banner of the Chinese men's tennis team in the future, you must increase the number of att-the-top tournaments, play with the world's top masters, and increase your confrontation ability and practical experience in high-level international competitions.