In the 2022 ITF Challenge Men's Singles Final at orange garden M15 in the United States, Wu Yixun, a former brother from China, narrowly defeated American rival Michael Zheng 2-0 (7-6/ 7-5), thus breaking the personal 4-year championship drought and also raising the world ranking by 1100 places, and the instant ranking soared from 2000 to about 900 places. Wu Yiyu was the first player in the Chinese men's tennis world to win the Junior Grand Slam, and in 2017, he won the men's singles and men's doubles championships in the US Open junior group, once ranked first among the world's young male players, but unfortunately missed the game due to injury in the past two years, and this year he came back and won the championship in the second leg, which is expected to return to his former glory.
Wu Yiyu became famous at a young age, ushered in the golden state of the youth stage in 2017, and at the last Grand Slam tournament, the U.S. Open, he won both the men's singles and men's doubles finals, becoming the second male player in history to win the junior doubles at the US Open, and also topped the junior world rankings at the end of the year. Unfortunately, in 2019, injuries found him, and the treatment throughout the year delayed training and competitions, and in 2020, he did not go abroad to play because of the epidemic, and the world ranking plummeted to 2000 places. In 2022, Wu Yiyu officially returned from injury, and the Orange Garden Open was the second leg he participated in this year, reaching the men's singles final in one fell swoop.
Wu Yiyu in the Orange Garden Open men's singles final opponent Michael Zheng is also a Chinese player representing the United States, both sides in the first set Wu Yiyu took the lead, the first 2 sets are not alarming, each of them saved the battle 1-1, the 3rd set began Wu Yiyu's strength, even the warranty belt broke to win 2 sets, especially the 4th set was able to take the lead in the tug-of-war to complete the break, greatly boosted Wu Yihao's morale, the two sides in the first 6 sets Wu Yiyu led 4-2, but unfortunately the good times did not last long Michael Zheng completed the break in the 7th set, The two sides returned to the same running line again, Wu Yiyu missed the serve to win the set, the two sides played 6-6 in the first 12 sets to start a seven-match tiebreaker, Wu Yiyu did not receive the impact of the previous missed opportunity, and won the first set 7-4.
In the second set, both sides played cautiously in their respective serves, did not let the opponent find a good opportunity to break, in the first 11 rounds all saved successfully, Wu Yiyu served first to occupy a 6-5 lead, in the 12th set of opponents must be guaranteed, Wu Yiyu boldly tried to catch the ball at a large angle, the landing point was played very deeply, and finally the opponent could not resist encountering Wu Yifu's break, Wu Yiyu won the men's singles tournament of the station 7-5, gained 15 points, thus making the instant world ranking soar to within the top 1000.
The Chinese men's tennis team is still seeking continuous breakthroughs, the world's highest ranking Zhang Zhizhen has entered the top 4 of the Tallahassee Challenge, the 17-year-old Shang Juncheng also appeared in the top masters with a wild card this year, the 20-year-old young player Bu YunChaokte just won the M15 Monastir Open men's singles championship, the recent series of achievements to the Chinese men's tennis team that is still groping for a bright road in the dark has brought a touch of warmth, hoping that they can break through the bottleneck of the top 100 singles as soon as possible, so that there are Chinese mainland male players in the TOP ATP masters.