Shang Juncheng made history again! At 19 years, 3 months and 18 days, he became the second youngest player in Chinese mainland's first TOP100, surpassing Zheng Qinwen (19 years, 3 months and 23 days). He is also the third TOP100 player in the Chinese men's tennis after Zhang Zhizhen and Wu Yixuan.
In the second round of the ATP Challenger CH175 Bordeaux Men's Singles, teenager Shang Juncheng will face Spain's Baena, the fourth seed of the tournament. At present, the world ranking is 105 small businessmen and 62 opponents. Baena had previously peaked at 49th and had a best Grand Slam finish in the third round of the French Open, where he won second at the Marrakech 250 this season. The small business broke out at the beginning of the season, with the Hong Kong 250 reaching the semi-finals, the Australian Open reaching the third round, and then the second round in Madrid, Miami and IW. At just 19 years old, he's been doing pretty well this season.
However, in the face of the old and spicy Baena, Xiao Shang had a very bad start to the game, losing 5 games in a row as soon as he came up, and was broken in 4 consecutive service games, losing the first set 1-6.
In the second set, Xiao Shang adjusted very quickly, and after changing his tactics, he took the lead in completing the break, and finally relied on this only break to equalize the score 6-4.
In the deciding set, the two broke each other in the first 3 games, and Xiaoshang led 2-1. In the crucial 7th game, he seized the opportunity to break serve again, and finally won another set 6-2, and reversed his opponent with a big score of 2-1 and advanced to the quarterfinals.
The battle took 2 hours and 13 minutes. Xiaoshang has 3 aces, a first-serve scoring rate of 64%, a first-serve scoring rate of 67%, 5 of 13 break points, and 25 points and 6,140 euros in bonuses, and the instant ranking has reached 94th.
This also means that seven players currently need to surpass him at the same time to push him out of the top 100. However, due to the fact that Barrell and Perica, who are currently participating in the Bordeaux tournament, cannot win the championship at the same time, and Barrias, who is participating in the Turin tournament, met Goffin in the first round, Shang Juncheng was able to confirm that he will officially enter the TOP100 next Monday, creating Chinese tennis history again.