Lu Yanxun finally won again!
Chinese Taipei veteran Lu Yanxun, who is currently only ranked 1020th in the world, successfully advanced to the second round by beating Quiray 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of men's singles at the Miami Masters.
So do you know when Lu Yanxun last won at the ATP? That goes back to the 2017 season in Tokyo, Japan.
After a full 1,060 days, he won the professional men's singles victory again (2018 Seoul Challenge), and Lu Yanxun beat the TOP70 players again after a gap of four years.
Born on August 14, 1983 in Chinese Taipei, Lo Yanxun showed his talent for tennis as a teenager and debuted in Asia for the first time in the international youth rankings in 2000, and he also appeared on the cover of the Asian Tennis Magazine at that time.
At less than 20 years old, Mr. Lo had become the backbone of Taiwanese tennis, and in 2003 he led Chinese Taipei back to the Davis Cup Asia Pacific Tier 1.
At the same time, he also participated in the World University Games in Daegu, South Korea, that year, and won the first gold medal in the history of tennis singles for Taiwan.
There is no doubt that at this time, Lu Yanxun had high hopes, and in May 2004 he also raised his ATP singles ranking to the top 100, of course, mainly by virtue of his solid and stable performance in ITF events.
At the ATP Queen's Cup in London in June 2004, Lo won the first at-the-top singles event for a Taiwanese male player.
It is worth mentioning that at that time, he also defeated argentina's famous Coria, who was the third in the world at the time, in the second round, and broke out, which also made him nominated for the 2004 ATP Annual Progress Award.
At Wimbledon in 2005, Lu Yanxun reached the second round of men's singles for two consecutive seasons, and that year at the Australian Open, he also partnered a Japanese player to reach the men's doubles quarterfinals.
At the ATP India Open in the same year, Lu Yanxun won the men's doubles championship with Germany's Schutler, which was also his first time in an ATP event.
Of course, Lu Yanxun's favorite fan is at the 2010 Wimbledon Open, when he reached 41st in the world rankings.
This year, Wimbledon Lu Yanxun fought hard in five sets in the men's singles round, and finally defeated the No. 5 seed and three-time runner-up American Andy Roddick in a 4-6/7-6/7-6/6-6/6-6/6-7/9-7 long set, reaching the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam men's singles for the first time in his career.
At the same time, Lu Yanxun also equaled the Best Asian Men's Singles Wimbledon record set by Japanese famous Shuzo Matsuoka in 1995, of course, this achievement was broken by Kei Nishikori a few years later.
Although Lu Yanxun did not seem to have made a breakthrough after that, he became the object of the fans' talk, and training hard was always his label.
As an Asian tennis player, there is no doubt that Lu Yanxun is quite successful, so when do you think the mainland men's singles players can reach his height? (Source: House of Tennis Author: Barbie)