Original title: He misplaced to Shang Juncheng, the son of a soccer legend, within the first spherical of qualifying and missed the French Open foremost draw
Yesterday, the qualifying rounds for the 2024 French Open started. In the primary spherical of the singles qualifying spherical, Shang Juncheng, the world‘s second-ranked Chinese males’s tennis participant who lately broke 100, misplaced to the son of the Argentine soccer legend in two units resulting from bodily results. Currently, China’s No. 3 tennis participant Buyunchaoket has reached the second spherical of the French Open qualifying spherical.
In the primary qualifying spherical of the French Open, Shang Juncheng’s dad and mom, Shang Yi and Wu Na, had been there to congratulate Xiao Shang. Interestingly, Shang Juncheng’s opponent within the first qualifying spherical, Roman Bruchaga, was the one son of Bruchaga who performed with Maradona within the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. The Argentine soccer legend as soon as scored a objective in that World Cup last, serving to Argentina win the Hercules Cup. Roman, 22, has been enjoying skilled tennis for a few years. This week he’s ranked a hundred and seventieth, the best rating of his profession.
Although Shang Juncheng carried out effectively within the warm-up match of the French Open, Xiao Shang was not in one of the best of well being when he arrived on the French Open. At the start of the sport, Xiao Shang fell behind 0 to three. Xiao Shang then known as a medical timeout. The physician got here in and listened to Xiao Shang’s heartbeat. He additionally stretched out his fingers to examine whether or not Xiao Shang’s eyes might sustain together with his motion pace. After the medical suspension, Xiaoshang recovered and as soon as received 4 video games in a row. But with the rating tied at 4-3, Xiao Shang known as for a medical timeout. Due to the restrictions of the legal guidelines, small businessmen have by no means obtained remedy. After talking with the healer, Xiao Shang continued. Then he made consecutive errors and misplaced 3 video games in a row, shedding the primary set 4-6.
After a break between units, Xiao Shang pressured two break factors within the first service sport of his opponent within the second set, however sadly didn’t money in on the break. Shang Juncheng then broke serve and took a 3-1 lead. However, his bodily difficulties will not be over, and he’ll sit on the row seat to relaxation between video games. After that, either side broke, and Xiao Shang took the lead 4-2. At the tip of the set, Shang Chengcheng missed two set factors whereas main 5-3, and his opponents broke his serve within the set-winning match. Buruchaga bought 3 match factors after chasing 3 video games in a row. After Shang Juncheng efficiently saved the match factors in a row, he pulled the match into halftime. Buruchaga scored their fourth match level on the break and received 6-4, 7-6. Shang Juncheng missed the second spherical of qualifying for the French Open.
The newest males’s singles world rankings launched by the ATP earlier confirmed that Shang Juncheng reached the 89th place within the ATP world rankings with 20 factors earned on the Rome Masters and 50 factors on the Bordeaux Challenge in France. At solely 19 years previous, Shang Juncheng grew to become the youngest Chinese male participant to succeed in the highest 100 on the planet for the primary time, and the youngest participant within the high 100. (Reporter Chu Peng)