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making history! 19-year-old chinese boy wins first title of his career and takes home $178,000

2024-09-24

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on september 24, beijing time, in the men's singles final of the just-concluded atp250 chengdu open, chinese player shang juncheng defeated the top seed of the tournament, italian player musetti, in straight sets and won the championship! at the same time, he also became the first post-05 player in men's tennis!

the scores of the two sets were: 7-6 (7-4), 6-1.

this is the first time that 19-year-old shang juncheng has reached a tour final in his career, and also the first time he has won a tour championship in his career.

with the championship in chengdu,shang juncheng received a prize of $178,195.in addition, he also received 250 atp points. with these 250 points, the real-time completion of the businessworld ranking reached 52nd

it is worth mentioning that shang juncheng is the first player born after 2005 to win an atp tour title, and the youngest player among the 11 new atp champions this year. shang juncheng was born on february 2, 2005, and his father is the former men's football player shang yi.

shang juncheng's victory in this chengdu tour was of great significance. he defeated the no. 1, no. 2, and no. 8 seeds of this tournament and finally won the championship. in addition, he also defeated the former us open runner-up kei nishikori.

shang juncheng's road to victory:

first round 2-0 kei nishikori

second round: 2-1 safiullin (no. 8 seed)

third round: 2-0 bublik (no. 2 seed)

fourth round 2-0 hanfman

final 2-0 musetti (top seed)