On March 24, the ATP Miami Masters competed for the first round of the main tournament. China's 17-year-old Shang Juncheng, who played as a card player, wasted a serve win in the second set and a 4-3 lead in the decider, losing 1-2 to Kudra, a native American player who broke through from the qualifiers, missing the second round and failing to create a national history of winning the first victory at the masters tournament held in a non-homegrown country.
In the first set, the two sides protected each other all the way to 4-4, and Shang Juncheng loosened in the 9th set and was successfully broken by the opponent. At the critical moment, the 17-year-old played the momentum and immediately broke back, defusing the opponent's serve to win the game and dragging the game into the seventh. In the seventh, Shang Juncheng won 7-3 and took the lead first.
In the second set, Shang Juncheng was able to hold the serve in the fourth set 0-40 behind, and the score was tightly clenched. After 4-4, Shang Juncheng scored four straight points to achieve a key break, ushering in his own serve to win the game. Seeing that victory was in sight, Shang Juncheng's mentality seemed to fluctuate, and Kudra took the opportunity to break back and win three consecutive sets to equalize the score 7-5.
In the decider, Shang Juncheng's first serve was broken again, 0-2, by which time he had conceded five innings in a row. The young and energetic youngsters did not want to tie their hands and grabbed it, breaking the belt to ensure that the score was 2-2. After 3-3, Shang Completed the fourth break of the game, 4-3, and once again took the lead! However, in the next set, he was broken after two equal divisions, and then fell to 4-6!
In the whole game, Shang Juncheng issued 2 Aces, but there were 5 double errors, which showed that the serve was the weakness of Shang Juncheng, who was 1.8 meters tall. It is precisely because of the existence of this weakness that he frequently wasted the serve to win the game and take the lead in breaking, and was broken 6 times in the whole game. In terms of total scores, Shang Juncheng trailed by 5 points 105-110.
This is Shang Juncheng's second time to participate in the Masters, compared to the performance of the previous Indian Wells station from the qualifiers, this time the tuition fee is somewhat unjust. After all, in the face of Kudra, who is ranked 84th in the world, Shang Juncheng has too many opportunities to end the game, but unfortunately, his psychology is still a little naïve, and in the end, he has lost everything and lost a very unfortunate loss.
Of course, through the game, Shang Juncheng also found his own problems, such as the lack of a fatal killer, especially the serve dragged its legs at key moments. In the future matches and training, if Shang Juncheng can strengthen in this regard, I believe it can enter the world's top 100 - such a seemingly easy goal, generations of tennis people have not been able to achieve, Shang Juncheng, look at you! Come on!
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