Chinese men's tennis welcomes good news! Zhang Zhizhen narrowly defeated the world No. 5 2-1, set 3 records, and won a prize of 480,000 yuan. In the second round of the 2024 ATP 500 Halle Station in Germany, China's first brother Zhang Zhizhen fought hard in 3 sets and knocked out the No. 3 seed and world No. 5 Medvedev with a total score of 2-1, and this is also the first time Zhang Zhizhen has reached the top 8 of this tournament, and the professional student defeated the world's top 10 for the third time, setting a new record.
Zhang Zhizhen and Medvedev have known each other for a long time, the two trained at the same tennis school as early as 2015, and also participated in 4 Hope Tournaments and 1 Challenger Tournament together, won 2 runners-up, and the two played each other in the ATP 250 Nice in 2016, when Zhang Zhizhen lost 1-2, and now the two meet again, Medvedev is already a Grand Slam champion, on the other hand, Zhang Zhizhen is still working hard for his first tour title. In this game, in the first set, the two sides each completed the hold in the first 5 games, Zhang Zhizhen led 3-2 in the game, in the 6th game, the two sides entered the stalemate, Zhang Zhizhen took the lead in getting the break point, but Medvedev played very tenacious, saving two break points in a row, at the critical moment, Zhang Zhizhen withstood the pressure to complete the break, the game was 4-2 ahead, in the 7th game, Zhang Zhizhen successfully held serve and expanded the lead, in the 8th game, Medvedev completed the hold, and in the 9th game, Zhang Zhizhen won his own serve to win the set and won the first set 6-3.
In the second set, Medvedev strengthened his offensive and played very strongly in receiving serves, on the other hand, Zhang Zhizhen was a little broken and made a lot of mistakes, in the 6th game, Medvedev grabbed Zhang Zhizhen's mistake and completed the break, and in the 8th game, Zhang Zhizhen made a mistake in his unavoidable service game, although he saved a set point, but Medvedev still pulled back a set 6-2. In the deciding set, the competition between the two has entered the white-hot stage, Medvedev completed the break as soon as he came up, leading 2-0 in the game, and then Zhang Zhizhen completed the break, chasing the game to a 2-2 draw, after which the two sides completed each other's hold, and the game also entered the tie-break, the two sides entered the struggle again, when the score was 5-5 draw, Zhang Zhizhen scored 2 points in a row with his serve, and won another set with 7-5, so as to reverse with a total score of 2-1, successfully advanced to the top 8, and will compete with Eubanks for the top 4 seats.
Zhang Zhizhen directly set 3 records with this victory, the first one, which is the first time that Zhang Zhizhen has reached the top 8 of Halle in his career; Second, this is the third time that Zhang Zhizhen has defeated the world's top 10 in his career; Third, Zhang Zhizhen has risen to 39th in the world rankings, creating a new personal high. In addition, Zhang Zhizhen also received a bonus of 61,800 euros, which is equivalent to about 480,000 yuan. This article was originally written by Xiao Lizi, please do not plagiarize or carry it.