The Chinese player beat Britain’s Henry Patten 7-5, 7-6(8) in the tournament held in the United States. For the passage in the quarterfinals, he will face the Australian Jordan Thompson.
After his first two successful tournaments with Marcelo Ríos as coach, where he won the title at the Lexington Challenger and reached the final in Granby, Juncheng Shang (202nd) was back on the circuit in Cary’s Challenger 80. His rival was Britain’s Henry Patten (468th), from quality and whose best results were obtained in doubles. The result favored the Oriental, who won in an eventful match by 7-5 and 7-6 (8).
The match started in a catastrophic way for the Chinese player, andbecause with two consecutive breaks it became 3-0 and on serve. However, the European southpaw fired them and went 3-3 and even had two break points in the seventh Gamebut the Asian managed to save them with hard work against a rival with no recourse but power.
At the end of the ninth round, Shang sought medical attention. When he returned, his best version was seen. Concentrated and with very good shots, he won his serve and broke in the eleventh game, to then close the first set. At the end of this chapter, he again requested a visit from the physiotherapist.
After being treated, he made another break at the start of the second set. However, again he didn’t serve well and Patten, 1.98m, broke him again. From the grandstand on pitch 13, the “Come on, Jerry” was clearly heard de Ríos, who encouraged him every time he scored a point. A new Pause In favor of the Chinese after coming back from 40-0 with the rival’s service, he handed it over with the first option to close the duel.
When everything seemed closed, once again Shang couldn’t keep his serve and ended up giving it up to give the engagement an unnecessary dose of angst. Everything was resolved after saving a set point in the decisive game where he had to push himself to the limit to close the game with a 10-8 tiebreaker.
The victory allows the Chilean student to enter the top 200 for the first time. In fact, this new triumph provisionally places him in position 193 of the ranking.
His rival in the second round will be the Australian Jordan Thompson (102nd), whom he has already beaten in the quarterfinals in Granby. On this occasion, the Asian won 7-5 and 6-4.
Ríos, for his part, continues his successful run with Shang, as the win at Cary is the tenth win in 11 games since he’s been under his wing.
“I decided to be with him full time because six months is a lie and I’m not going to achieve what I want. I decided to stay for a year and plan. Now he has six more tournaments in the United States and by the end of the year we will see if we go to Europe. Let’s see if he makes a few finals and put him at 150 or better. Everything went well, he couldn’t even imagine making two finals and beating guys like (Jordan) Thompson,” the former world number one commented to Jock There are days.
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