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The 2024 US Open will kick off tonight Beijing time. As many as 11 Chinese tennis players who performed well in the Paris Olympics that ended not long ago have entered the men's and women's singles main draws of this year's US Open. Among them, Buyun Chaoket, a young Mongolian player from Xinjiang, successfully passed the US Open qualifying round and qualified for the men's singles main draw of a tennis Grand Slam for the first time. This is the fourth player in Chinese mainland men's tennis who will appear in the men's singles main draw of a Grand Slam tournament after Zhang Zhizhen, Wu Yibing and Shang Juncheng.

Meanwhile, Buyun Chaoket, currently ranked 123rd in the world, is expected to enter the top 100 in the world rankings for men's singles tennis after Zhang Zhizhen, Wu Yibing and Shang Juncheng. However, just two or three years ago, it was still a difficult mountain for Chinese male tennis players to climb, whether it was to qualify for the men's singles main draw of a Grand Slam tournament or to enter the top 100 in the world rankings.

More than 20 days ago, at the Roland Garros Stadium in France, Chinese players performed impressively in the tennis competition of the Paris Olympics. Zheng Qinwen won the first singles gold medal in the history of the Olympic tennis event for China, and Zhang Zhizhen/Wang Xinyu won the first Olympic mixed doubles medal for China. But these 1 gold and 1 silver are just two "small goals" in a series of gratifying achievements for Chinese tennis, which has made continuous breakthroughs in the past two or three years. After the Paris Olympics, with the opening of the US Open season, Chinese tennis continued its upward momentum. This time, it was the young player Buyun Chaoket who ushered in a transformation in his career.

He won the men's singles qualifying tournament of this year's US Open after passing three rounds in a row. In particular, in the third round of the qualifying tournament, Buyunchokert faced former Australian Open men's singles semi-finalist Karatsev and won the match in a comeback. This victory finally fulfilled Buyunchokert's long-cherished wish of entering the men's singles main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, and became an important moment in the career of the 22-year-old young tennis player.

On the evening of August 24, Buyunchaoket said in a joint online interview with multiple Chinese media that the excellent results achieved in recent years by many Chinese tennis players including Zheng Qinwen, Zhang Zhizhen, Wu Yibing and Wang Xinyu have given him great motivation.

Chinese tennis players have achieved outstanding results in the Paris Olympics and have become the focus of attention of the Chinese people. However, for Buyun Chaoket, the inspiration brought by these outstanding Chinese tennis players has been around for a long time, not just this Olympics. "I think Zheng Qinwen, Zhang Zhizhen and Wang Xinyu have all achieved great success in ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals), WTA (Women's Tennis Association), and Grand Slam events. Now everyone knows that Zheng Qinwen is an Olympic champion, but many people may not know that she is the runner-up of the Australian Open. We have all been engaged in tennis for so many years, and they have given us a lot of motivation very early on. Because they are the first group of players at my age to achieve these results, of course they will give us young players a lot of motivation."

It is also against the backdrop of the continuous growth and overall strength of Chinese tennis that young players like Buyun Chaoket have gained greater confidence. He said: "When we were young, all the leaders and coaches told us to achieve the goal of entering the top 100, because at that time we had no (male) players who could do it. In recent years, Zhang Zhizhen, Wu Yibing and Xiao Shang have all achieved it, and even achieved results far beyond this goal. Of course, it has a great impact on me. I also want to enter the top 100, and then play better in the future, and move towards the goal of the top 50 or even the top 30."

Buyun Chaoket is currently ranked 123rd in the world, and is only one step away from becoming the fourth male player from mainland China to enter the world top 100. He also believes that this goal of his will be achieved soon.

Currently, China has two male tennis players ranked in the top 100 in the world, including Zhang Zhizhen at No. 41 and Shang Juncheng at No. 72. Wu Yibing, who once broke into the top 100 in the world rankings in 2023, has been on hiatus in the 2024 season due to injury until he recently returned to the 2024 International Men's Professional Tennis Challenge Jinan Station (ATP50) and won the championship.

Zhang Zhizhen had predicted during this year's Paris Olympics that four Chinese men's tennis players would soon enter the top 100 in the world. In addition to him and Shang Juncheng, he was optimistic about Wu Yibing's recovery after his injury, and was also optimistic about Buyun Chaoket who was working hard to sprint towards the top 100.

Starting from October 2022, when Zhang Zhizhen entered the top 100 in the world ranking for the first time, becoming the first male tennis player from mainland China to rank among the top 100 in the world, in less than two years, the performance of Chinese men's tennis has made rapid progress, and fresh blood has continued to join. Behind this phenomenon is the rapid improvement of the strength of Chinese tennis as a whole. Chinese women's tennis players represented by Zheng Qinwen, Wang Xinyu, Yuan Yue, Wang Xiyu, Wang Yafan, etc. have formed a group advantage and have become a Chinese force that cannot be ignored in the world women's professional tennis. Although the overall strength of Chinese men's tennis is still a big gap compared to that of Chinese women's tennis, it is also growing steadily. Some achievements that seemed unimaginable a few years ago have now been achieved, including Chinese men's players ranking in the top 35 in the world, becoming the men's singles seeded player in the Grand Slam tournament, and defeating the top 5 men's singles players in the world.

In addition to their growing strength and achievements, Chinese tennis players also show their distinctive characteristics in personality and thinking. Just as Zheng Qinwen said in an interview with the media at the summary and commendation meeting of the Chinese delegation of the Paris Olympics held a few days ago, "The young generation looks at the world with equal eyes and represents China's progress. Only by looking at the world with equal eyes can we bring out our true and complete selves more strongly... The spirit of sports is to challenge the best of ourselves, to be faster and stronger, but not necessarily to compete with others, but to do the best within our reach and live up to ourselves." Buyun Chaoket also has his own understanding of himself and life. He said: "Although I have players I like very much, I don't want to be anyone, I just want to be myself. Because I look at all of China and the world, no one is walking the same path as me. The players I like and admire can certainly bring me a lot of energy, but I don't think I am very similar to all the players."