Every year, the tennis world hosts the Australian Farwin-American Four Grand Slam Open Tournaments. In these four Grand Slam Open Tournaments, it is not easy to reach the final four. However, in 2018, two people reached the final four at the same time in the same Grand Slam tournament.
This is their first time in the final four of a Grand Slam, and the only experience the two have had so far. Coincidentally, at the 2018 Masters, they also reached the quarterfinals twice. With excellent results, their world rankings have been greatly improved.
Time has passed, and now that their world rankings have fallen sharply, it's hard to see their names on the Tour draws anymore. Today, let me tell you about their story, I hope you can support it more and like it a lot.
At the 2018 Australian Open, Murray, a well-known British tennis player, announced his withdrawal due to injury. Just when all tennis enthusiasts were generally bearish on the prospects of British men's tennis players, Edmund stepped forward in time.
In the first round, he won five sets to defeat 2017 US Open runner-up Anderson. In the following matches, Edmund broke through all the way, defeating all the best players and reaching the final four. This is the first time in his career that he has reached the final four of a Grand Slam, becoming the first post-95 male player to reach the final four of a Grand Slam.
Although in the semi-finals, he was defeated by Grand Slam champion Cilic and missed the final. However, with excellent results, in March, Edmund surpassed Murray in the world rankings to become the first brother of British tennis.
This year, he reached the quarter-finals of both the Madrid Masters and the Shanghai Masters. In October, at the Antwerp Open, he won the first tour title of his career.
At the 2018 Australian Open, Zheng Heng received a retirement gift from Misha Zverev in the first round of the competition and successfully advanced to the finale. In the second round, after winning the first set of seven, zheng hyun sent two fritters to eliminate Medvedev in the following game.
In the third round, after five sets of fighting, Zheng Heng defeated Zverev Jr. to win the first victory of his career against the world's top ten players. In the following game, facing former world number one Djokovic, Zheng Hyun was not soft and fell straight into three sets to advance.
In the quarter-finals, Jeong Hyun defeated Sandgren in three consecutive sets to reach the final four of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career, becoming the first player in Korean history to reach the final four of the men's singles of a Grand Slam. At the same time, he also became the second player in Asia to reach the final four of the men's singles of a Grand Slam after Kei Nishikori. After Edmund, Zheng Became the second post-95 to reach the final four of the Grand Slam men's singles.
In the semifinals, although Jung Hyun was plagued by blisters under his feet when he was behind defending champion Federer, he retired due to injury, but the Record of the Australian Open Final Four also brought his world ranking to 29th, becoming the highest ranking player in the history of the Korean men's tennis. That same year, he reached the quarter-finals of the Indian Wells Masters and the Miami Masters, rising to 19th in the world rankings, replacing Kei Nishikori as the world's highest-ranked player in the Asian men's singles.
Time flies, since 2020, Zheng Heng has never appeared on the Grand Slam arena again. Nowadays, on the tour, it is difficult to see him again. Edmund's situation is not much better than his! After 2021, he has not appeared on the Grand Slam stage. On the ATP Tour, it is also difficult to find him.
Today, Zheng's world ranking has fallen to 400 places away. Edmund's world rankings, while slightly better, are also outside the 300th place. Once in the 2018 Australian Open, these two post-95 tennis players rose in the same period and became a blockbuster. Unexpectedly, they were lost to the public in the same period, which made countless tennis fans sigh for it!
(Source: Tennis House Author: One Heart Resident)