The American Orange Garden 15k ushered in the final battle, with Chinese teenager Wu Yiyu and 2004-born Chinese American player Zheng Yiyu. Michael competes for the title.
Wu Yihao's road to promotion is not smooth! In the first round, he beat American youngster Mostardi in two sets, defeated Denmark's Ingi denson in three sets in 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the second round, narrowly defeated Vallejo, who is currently second in the junior quarterfinals of this year's Australian Open, and defeated American wild card Tien in the semifinals.
American Zheng. Michael beat last year's Wimbledon junior runner-up Lilov in the first round to reverse China's 2004-born Nidon Gyalts in the quarter-finals after overcoming a 0-3 tiebreaker.
(Wu Yiyu and Niedun Gyaltsen)
In the final, Wu Yiyu took the lead in breaking the game to bring the score to a 4-1 lead, but the American youngster showed strong resilience and broke the belt to equalize. The two then broke each other's serves one after another to drag the first set into the seventh, and Wu Yiyu took the lead in the first set 7-4 in the rush seven. In the second set, the two sides saved each other until the eleventh set, when Wu Yiyu took a 6-5 lead to usher in his own pick-up victory, and the American teenager did not resist the pressure to break the service game with a 40-15 lead. At this point, Wu Yiyu broke the championship drought after winning the 2017 Shanghai Challenge, and won the singles championship on the professional field again in the past five years.
(Wu Yiyu won the 2017 US Open Youth Championship)
In 2017, Wu Yiyu won the US Open Junior Singles and Doubles Championship, and the youth ranking once came to the world first, and in the same year, he defeated the "King of the Asian Challenge" Lu Yanxun at the Shanghai Challenge to win his first Challenge Championship. The following year, he helped the Chinese men's singles return to the final of the Asian Games after many years, the Davis Cup helped the Chinese team beat the New Zealand team, the Shanghai Masters won the first victory with a wild card and won a set in the second round of the Asian brother Nishikori Kei, and the world ranking once reached the top 300.
At this time, most tennis fans thought that Wu Yiyu would attack the records of his predecessors, and Chinese men's tennis may usher in the first top 100. However, in 2019, Wu Yiyu was plagued by injuries and illnesses, and his mother's concept of being inconsistent with the coaching concept once made the outside world question him. Subsequently, in 2020, caused by the epidemic, Wu Yiyu made a comeback on the Central Tour, once winning more than 20 consecutive games. However, in order to ensure that participation in the National Games is not affected, Wu Yiyu's plan to return to the international arena has been postponed.
In 2022, Wu Yiyu finally returned to the international arena, but encountered challenges in the first game of his comeback. In the match in Cancun 15, Mexico, wu Yiyu sprained his ankle again in the second round of the match due to uneven venues, and had to go to the img tennis academy for recuperation.
(Wu Yixun and Shang Juncheng)
Although he has been questioned, the once genius teenager Wu Yiyu quietly announced his return with his actions. Maybe the 15k victory will not change other people's perception of him, but in the post-epidemic era, Wu Yiyu, who can only start from the foreign low-level hope competition, has taken his own steps forward. Although the championship's 15 points are small, it can also ensure that Wu Yiyu does not have to pass the qualification test for the next period of time, and can also add confidence to him to use the ranking protection to participate in the challenge.
(The image comes from Weibo id@ Tennis Stupid Fight, which borrows the chat records of Wu Yiyu and Zhang Bendou to highlight Wu Yiyu's lofty ambitions.) If there is any offense, please Wu Yiyu and Zhang Bendou teacher Haihan)
From the words issued by Wu Yiyu who took the initiative to find Teacher Zhang Bendou, it is not difficult to see that Wu Yiyu is a boy with a very sense of responsibility and eager to create history for the Chinese men's network. Perhaps under the pressure of excessive expectations and injuries, he is difficult to achieve good results and is sneered at, but the 22-year-old Wu Yiyu can return to the field under so much pressure, which should be commendable. Perhaps the rise of the younger generations Li Hanwen and Shang Juncheng will also divide some of Wu Yixun's resources, and I believe that these will not become the straw that crushes Wu Yixun, but will become a certain driving force that motivates Wu Yixun to move forward.
(Picture of Buyunchoctor winning the championship this week)
Coincidentally, this week, Wu Yihao's good brother and young man born in 2002, Buyun Choctor, also won his first career title in Tunisia at 15k, and the world ranking will also come to about 700. In addition, this week, a number of Chinese male players broke into the challenge and the final four of the hope competition, losing the protection of the Asian hope and challenge in the post-epidemic era, and it is really gratifying for Chinese fans to achieve such results.
It is hoped that young players such as Shang Juncheng, Li Hanwen, Wu Yiyu and Bu yunchaokete, players such as Zhang Zhizhen and Sun Fajing, and veterans such as Li Zhe and Bai Yan can constantly break through themselves and bring surprises to Chinese fans in healthy competition. (Source: Tennis House Author: Mo Chuan)