Teenager Shang Juncheng beat Italian Olympic bronze medalist Lorenzo Musetti 7-6 (4), 6-1 within the Chengdu Open remaining Tuesday to turn out to be the second Chinese language participant to win an ATP title.
It’s the first ATP Tour title for Shang, who’s at present China’s No. 2 and ranked fifty fifth on the planet. The previous juniors No. 1 can also be the youngest ATP winner of the season at 19 years outdated.
Li Na stays China’s most profitable singles participant with Grand Slam wins on the French Open in 2011 and the Australian Open in 2014, whereas there are a number of ladies hoping to emulate her, together with Paris Olympics gold medalist Qinwen Zheng.
However success on the lads’s facet has largely eluded the nation, and Wu Yibing turned the primary Chinese language participant to seize an ATP trophy when he received the Dallas Open final 12 months.
Shang has additionally strengthened his push to qualify for the Subsequent Gen ATP Finals for the primary time. The competitors, hosted in Saudi Arabia in November and December, will characteristic the world’s high 20-and-under singles gamers of the ATP Tour season.
Within the Hangzhou Open, Croat wild card Marin Cilic turned the lowest-ranked champion in ATP Tour historical past on Tuesday with success in his first tour degree occasion since February.
Cilic, who turns 36 on Saturday, received his first title since 2021 with a 7-6(5) 7-6(5) win over China’s primary and sixth seed Zhang Zhizhen, who was taking part in his first tour degree remaining.
The triumph for Cilic, who has been sidelined with a knee damage, lifted the previous world quantity three from 777th at the beginning of the event to 212 within the ATP rankings.
It was the twenty first title of Cilic’s profession, with the Hangzhou Open having changed the Zhuhai Championships on the calendar.
