China, a world power in table tennis, turned his sights on tennis when Beijing was chosen as the host city for the 2008 Olympics.
Huge economic investments are devoted to the development of large infrastructures that can host major events in the men’s and women’s circuits, but also to the hiring of foreign technicians directly or through direct contact with the famous that academy.
The Asian giant has arranged a pyramid of goals. The main plan is focused on women’s doubles, where the country’s sports specialists, advised by international heavyweights, see the easiest and fastest way to put the players at a high level to aim for an Olympic medal.
They didn’t make a mistake. Chinese doubles players have occupied positions of privilege for several years. Ting Li and Tiantian Sun they already hung the specialty gold in Athens 2004. At home, Beijing, Zi Yan and Jie Zheng took bronze.
From quantity and quality arise that liindividual champion at Roland Garros 2011 and Australian Open 2014, world number two after his victory in Melbourne.
There is no substitute for its potential, but the Chinese group has continued to be a force on the WTA Tour. There are seven players in the top-100 individual world rankings, with veteran Shuai Zhang leading the way in 26th place, at the age of 33. But just behind him appears qinwen zheng20 and in the Catalan direction Peter Riba. Xiyu Wang and Xinyu Wang, 21, are also hitting the pro circuit with a vengeance.
In doubles there are five in the top-100, with Zhaouxuan Yang in style in sixteenth place. ‘Singles’ are in the middle if the results are inclusive.
And the men? They were relegated, against the background of which they tried to emerge with a new interesting generation. With all the money being transferred, and the flow of people available, it should be a matter of time before an interesting Chinese tennis player appears on the ATP Tour.
In the next world ranking, on Monday, October 24, Zhizhen Zhang will make history by entering the top 100. This will be the first in his country. His status as a quarterfinalist at the ATP 250 in Naples allowed him to move up more than a dozen positions. Temporarily appearing on the 97th. He is 26 years old.
Yibing Wu, after the injuries, he began to show his head to the professionals, after commanding the juniors. At 23 he is 115th ATP. In the last US Open he passed two rounds, a milestone for tennis in his country, coming from the previous stage.
And with high hopes pinned Juncheng Shang, 17 years old and 198 in the world. Trained in the United States from the age of 13.
Source: La Verdad
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