The 23-year-old tennis player Yibing wow continues to make history for Chinese men’s tennis and became the first player to reach the final of an ATP tournament after his semifinal victory over the first seed, the American Taylor Fritz, this Saturday in Dallas, by 6-7 ( 3/7) , 7-5 and 6-4.
After defeating Shapovalov, seed number 3, and Mannarino, seed number 8, Wu, 97th in the world, will look for his first championship trophy against another American, John Isner.
“When I played today, I didn’t focus on the score or the win. I just tried to do my best,” he declared in his interview at the foot of the court after closing out the game with two of his 34 winning shots. .
Losing a marathon 58-minute first set, Wu had to face five break points in the fourth game of the second set, battle to hold serve at 5-4, break Fritz at 5-5 and eventually win. the set on his serve.
The suspense eased in the third set, when Wu broke Fritz’s serve in the fifth game to win his first career set against a Top 10 player.
With his performance in Dallas, Wu should also become the highest-ranked Chinese in ATP history, surpassing Zhang Zhizhen, who is currently ranked 91st in the world. Wu also made history for Chinese men’s tennis at the last US Open by becoming the first to win a Grand Slam match in 63 years -Mei Fu Chi at Wimbledon’1959- by eliminating Nikoloz Basilashvili in the first round in New York back then 174 in the world.
In the female category, they have related tennis players like Li Nawho in 2011 managed to register the first Asian name in the list of winners of a Grand Slam by defeating the Italian Francesca Schiavone in the final of Roland Garros.
In the final Wu will face Isner, who qualified for his 31st ATP final on serve with a 3-6 7-5 7-6 (7/4) win over compatriot JJ Wolf.
Source: La Verdad
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