In the early hours of this morning, Shang Juncheng achieved a milestone victory in his career. He took a wild card to the Indian Wells Masters qualifying tournament, beating Argentina's Celendoro, who is ranked 100th in the world, 7-6, 6-4. It was also his first victory at at the ATP Tour level.
Shang Juncheng was suppressed by the strength of his opponents in the first set, falling behind 1-4. However, he still maintained a steady and steady tactic, tenaciously and patiently chasing the score and taking the first set to grab seven. In the second set, he also broke the score after being broken by the opponent, but after 4-4 he made it again, and the break finally won the game.
Opponent Serendolo was born in 1998 and is 23 years old. He just set a career-high of 76 just two weeks ago, but this week deducted points from last year's ATP250 Buenos Aires leg from qualifying to the final, and his world ranking dropped to 100.
How should we view the victory of Shang Zhencheng? First of all, we need to understand that Celendoro is a player who is better at clay, and looking at his participation records, he hardly plays hard. Only one of his 13 ATP Challenge and ITF Hope championships came from hard courts. Last year's four Grand Slam qualifiers, Cerundoro only made the French Open in the main tournament, of which Wimbledon lost to Zhang Zhizhen in the third round of the qualifying round.
In addition to reaching the semi-finals of the ATP500 Rio station last week and reaching the final of the Argentine Open last year, Cerendoro's results are lackluster, and he rarely beats the top 100 players, and the more accurate strength positioning should be the top 200 players. So, there is no need to over-pursue this game.
At the same time, in this game, Selendoro made a lot of mistakes and did not provide a particularly good performance, so we must also look at this victory rationally and soberly. What's more, in the links that show strength such as serving and forehand, we can also clearly see the gap in the current batting power of Shang Juncheng.
Of course, for Shang Cheng, who has just created a new high of 543 in the world ranking this week, the 8 points gained by this game can raise his ranking by about 10 places, after all, Shang Cheng's total ATP points are only 59 points.
In addition, playing with the master, experiencing the atmosphere of the competition, accumulating the experience and confidence of the competition, this is the purpose of the trip, the victory of this game undoubtedly maximizes the realization of these purposes, it can be said that the small businessman did not waste this wild card, it is worth the trip.
Although the prospects and resources of the business journey are all good, there is still too much to do. Of course, the meaning of victory itself is that everything is moving in a good direction.
Celendoro is the No. 9 seed in the Indian Wells Qualifiers, and the opponent in the next round of the business journey is still not to be underestimated. As the 18th seed in qualifying, Germany's Moran is a veteran born in 1992. But last week he just won the Challenge (hard court) in Turin, Italy, and by the way, at the age of 30, he created the highest ranking in his career, which can be said to be in good shape, and I believe that this game also has great training value for Shang Cheng.
In addition, yesterday's Indian Wells women's singles signing table was also released, and Klechkova, Sabalenka, Swatake and Kontawirt were the top four seeds. Zheng Qinwen and Zhang Shuai are both good in the first round, and the second round is expected to challenge Kerber and Jabel respectively.
In the women's singles qualifier competition, Wang Xinyu and Yuan Yue lost to Bolt and Sharma in the first round, and Wang Qiang sent a double egg to an American wild card player, and the decisive round was against Russia's No. 5 seed Karinskaya.