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china's men's tennis team wins big! two players advance to the finals, zhang zhizhen wins first title, shang juncheng sets record

2024-09-24

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china's men's tennis won a great victory! two players advanced to the finals, zhang zhizhen won his first title, and shang juncheng set a record. it was the first time in the history of china's men's tennis that two players reached the finals of two tour tournaments in the same week. zhang zhizhen and shang juncheng jointly set a new record.

the first was the semi-final of the atp250 chengdu station. the 19-year-old chinese player shang juncheng faced off against the german player hanfmann. in this game, shang juncheng was in full force and took the initiative throughout the game. he won two consecutive sets 6-4, 6-4 and defeated his opponent to successfully advance to the final. this was the first time that shang juncheng reached the men's singles final of the tour in his personal career. at the same time, he became the second chinese male tennis player to reach the men's singles final of the tour after wu yibing. shang juncheng is also the second post-05 player to reach the tour final this year after menchik in doha. in fact, shang juncheng's luck in this station was not good. he met the japanese star kei nishikori in the first round, but shang juncheng defeated his opponent 2-0 to advance. then shang juncheng eliminated the no. 8 seed safiullin and asia's no. 1 bublik, successfully entered the top 4, and then swept hanfmann in the semi-finals. in the next final, shang juncheng will compete with the top seed musetti for the championship.