The 17-year-old Chinese men's tennis star of hope, Shang Zhencheng, set three records: in the first round of the 2022 ATP1000 Indian Wells Masters qualifiers, he defeated Argentina's Cerundolo, the world's top 100 player, 2-0 (7-6/6-4), beating the top 100 player for the first time in his career, and the victory of this game was also the first master game win in men's professional tennis. He is also the first post-05 player to win the world ranking 100 on the ATP Tour.
Shang Juncheng is the hope of the Chinese men's tennis, he was still participating in the junior Grand Slam last year, the best result was the men's singles runner-up in the junior group of the US Open, and in the Wimbledon junior group reached the men's singles semifinals, the French Open junior group reached the top 8 of the men's singles, with the excellent singles results of the three major slams, Shang Juncheng climbed to the 1st place in the world of junior men's tennis singles in 2021. This year, Shang Completed Cheng began to participate in the ATP Tour and the Low Level Challenge in the Senior Group, winning 4 championships in the Challenge, maintaining a staggering 100% probability of winning in the final.
As the hope of men's tennis, shang juncheng's potential was favored by the ATP in 2021, and a wild card was awarded to shangcheng at the 2021 Miami Masters, but stopped in the first qualifying round. The 2022 Rio Tour also played with wild cards and still had no opponents across the high-qualifying positions, but the Indian Wells Masters still awarded Shang Juncheng a wild card for the qualifying round, and the first round opponent was Argentina's Celendolo.
The top masters are different from the general challenge, Shang Juncheng has only had one experience of participation, still in the process of adapting, the first set was broken by Therondolo, and the Argentine good players achieved a 3-0 lead after two strong saves, fortunately, Shang Juncheng forced out the opponent's break point in the 7th set and cashed in, with the 8th set of the save, the two sides returned to the same running line 4-4, and in the absence of a chance to break, came to grab the seventh decisive victory, Shang Juncheng shot decisively, played more patiently, and came to the next set at 7-4.
In the second set of the game Shang Cheng took the lead, was forced out of 2 break points by Selendolo, fortunately, Shang Cheng stubbornly resolved, improved the state after the difficult hold of the 2nd set of the successful break, after the 3rd set again, achieved a 3-0 lead, the relaxed Shang Cheng was broken by the opponent in the 5th set, again reached 3-3, and then the two sides broke a set after each other and then fought to 4-4, the 9th set Shang Cheng tenaciously resolved the opponent's 3 break points, and won this set with 5-4 into the opponent's inevitable set, Unable to hold on under pressure, Shang took the opportunity to break and win the entire game 6-4, making a major breakthrough in his career, winning the first victory in the Masters and the first victory over the top 100 players.
Shang Juncheng set the record of the youngest master to win the TOP100, and also the youngest record to win the first victory of the Masters, with such brilliant results, his real-time ranking ranked among the top 500, creating a new career ranking! Shang Juncheng's opponent in the next round will be Germany's Mo Lan, and I hope that Shang Juncheng can continue to work hard!