On May 10, CH80 Zagreb Station began the first round of men's singles competition, and China's "three musketeers" Wu Yixun, Zhang Zhizhen and Shang Juncheng will compete successively. Wu Yihao, a former world number one in the junior group and the 2017 US Open junior men's singles champion, took the lead in ending the game, and he brought great surprises to Chinese fans, losing two sets in a row after losing the first set 1-6, defeating the top seed and world number 83 Thomson.
This is the third time in his career that Wu Yiyu has beaten the TOP100 players, after beating Two of the world's top 100 members, Lu Yanxun and Donskoy. Meanwhile, after his comeback in April, he maintained an unbeaten record – in the first leg of the Orange Garden 15K race, he finally won the championship as a P card. The 22-year-old's strong return makes people see the great hope of the Chinese men's network.
Back to the game. In the first set, Wu Yiyu obviously failed to adapt to the intensity of the 80K main game, not to mention that the opponent was the top seed, and soon fell behind 0-5. In the sixth set, he achieved his first save of the game, but as his opponent steadily won the set, the Chinese genius still lost a set 1-6.
In the second set, after mutual protection to 2-2, Wu Yiyu wasted 3 innings and saved 2 break points in his third serve and was broken by his opponent, and then he was dropped by the opponent for four straight points, falling behind 2-4. In desperation, Wu Yiyu let go of his hands and feet, and completed the return in the eighth set to chase the score to 4-4.
After that, Wu Yiyu wasted 3 break points and 1 set in the 12th set, respectively, and the game was dragged into the seventh. Wu Yiyu, who was in good morale, scored four consecutive points when he was 2-4 behind in the grab seven, and took a 6-4 lead to two consecutive sets. Although he missed one of them, he seized the sixth set opportunity to win the seventh 7-5 to make the score 1-1.
In the decider, the morale-frustrated Thomson was broken as soon as he came up, and Wu Yiyu's serve state was fully up, and after calmly saving the serve, he took a 2-0 lead. After that, Wu Yiyu became more and more courageous, and after 2-1, he saved two and broke, taking a 5-1 lead. Thompson saved his own unavoidable serve, but Wu Yiyu scored four straight points to win the game and ended the game 6-2.
Throughout the game, Wu Yiyu showed a strong ability to fight in the clay, and did not fall behind in the bottom line confrontation with the TOP100, which made people see his infinite potential. Of course, the biggest problem with his talent is that he is prone to injuries, and I hope that he can arrange training and competition more scientifically and not continue the script of "injuring Zhongyong".
As China's first youth-ranked men's player, Wu is considered the most promising player in Chinese tennis. After entering the professional arena in 2018, he achieved a series of good results, but he left the field for 2 years due to injury, missing a good time to improve the ranking.
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