The ATP250 Geneva Tour continues with a singles second round of a quarter-finalist match between China's "first brother" Wu Yixiang and Italian singles reflex player and 30-year-old veteran Cecinato.
At the Rome Masters, Wu Yixiang defeated the French veteran Gasquet to win his first career clay tour.
After arriving in Geneva, Wu Yixiang faced the host Brother Xusler in the first round, and finally won by saving the match point, winning two consecutive clay races.
In the second round, standing across the net from China's brother is the Italian SLR master, Cequinato.
For the veteran, who has turned 30 years old, I believe most fans remember his groundbreaking performance in 2018.
At the time, Cecinato, who was ranked only 92nd in the world, reached the main race as a lucky loser in the qualifying round in Budapest, and then went all the way to the top to win his first title.
Since then, the Italian player has opened the second line of Ren Du and performed an incredible and magical journey at the French Open.
Coming to the French Open, Cecinato defeated Belgium's then world's top ten Goffin in the fourth round to advance to the quarterfinals, and then in the 1/4 final, the Italian faced Serbian king Djokovic to play the most iconic match of his career, Chekinato and Deyo played four sets, won two tie-break and seven sets, and finally broke out a big cold to eliminate Deyo 3-1, reaching the final four of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career.
Cekinato's defeat of Deyo made the latter's defeat against SLR masters on the French Open clay court more and more: Federer, Wawrinka, Chekinato, Tim and other SLR players have all defeated the Serbian king at the French Open.
Even if Cecinato's record in recent years is average, the strength of clay cannot be underestimated, so this first meeting is undoubtedly a tough battle for Wu Yixiang.
The first set was served by an Italian.
In the first four games, the two sides were safe, each holding serve, and the game was divided to 2-2;
The balance of the match was then broken, and Wu Yixiang took the lead in the fifth game to take a 3-2 lead;
Behind Chequinato, he launched a counterattack and broke Wu Yixiang's serve in the 8th game, chasing the game to a 4-4 draw at a crucial moment;
After that, both sides held their own serves, winning 6 of each of the first 12 games, and had to tie the winner in the first set by tie-break.
In the seventh game, the Chinese brother once again showed a big heart performance, he played a consecutive four-point scoring climax when he was 3-5 behind, but later came out on top, winning the first set 7-5 to tie seven.
One set in hand, but Wu Yixiang in the second set had a bad start.
At the beginning of the game, the Chinese brother actually lost 4 points in a row on his own serve and was broken;
However, as the game deepened, Wu Yixiang broke the opponent's serve in the fourth game and chased the game to a 2-2 draw;
In the 5th game, Wu Yixiang lost the defense twice and was broken again, but this time he quickly responded, breaking his opponent at the speed of light in the 6th game to tie the game for the second time;
At the end of the eighth game, Wu Yixiang completed a key break and came to the serve to win the game with a 5-3 break advantage;
In the 9th game, Wu Yixiang successfully saved serve in the victory of the serve, thus winning the game with a score of 6-3.
In the end, the two sides fought fiercely in two sets, and China's brother Wu Yixiang won a complete victory, knocking out the former Grand Slam semifinalist Chekinato, and reaching the quarterfinals of the clay Tour for the first time in his career.
In the 1/4 final, Wu Yixiang will challenge the German brother and former Grand Slam runner-up Zverev Jr., whether the Chinese brother can continue to bring surprises to everyone, let's pay attention together!
Congratulations again to Wu Yixiang for reaching the quarterfinals.