Hyeon Chung

[Lleyton]

[DUN I LOVE]

Z połówką IW i ćwiartką Miami kończy marzec Koreańczyk. 6 ćwiartek na 7 startów w 2018.

[Barty]

To nie była też ćwiartka IW?

[Lucas]

Dissecting Chung's Game With His Coach Neville Godwin

Spoiler:

Neville Godwin has gone from working with one of the most improved players on the ATP World Tour to, again, working with one of the most improved players on Tour.

Last season, Godwin helped Kevin Anderson enjoy one of his best years. In mid-January, Anderson was ranked No. 80 in the ATP Rankings, but he finished 2017 in the Top 15 after reaching two finals, at the Citi Open and the US Open, his first Grand Slam title match.

Godwin and Anderson split at the end of last season, but the South African coach, who was the Coach of the Year in the 2017 ATP World Tour Awards presented by Moët & Chandon, has had an immediate impact with his new player, South Korea's Hyeon Chung.

Godwin started working with the reigning Next Gen ATP Finals champion in December 2017, and one month later, Chung reached his maiden Grand Slam semi-final in Melbourne. ATPWorldTour.com spoke with Godwin about his time with Anderson, what he's looking to improve in Chung's game and the differences between working with a 21-year-old (Chung) and a 32-year-old (Anderson).

You're working with Hyeon now. What did you know about his game before you started working with him in December 2017?
I watched him play a bunch last year, and Kevin had actually practised with him a couple of times, and he actually played [Chung] once in Stockholm as well. I watched him, scouting him.

It was quite handy from a negative perspective. It actually allowed me some good insight as to what are some things he could do better right away, so I was able to give him some good information right off the bat, which I think really helped him and put me in a good place with him.

What was your synopsis of Chung's game?
He was going very quickly onto defence. He's very comfortable on defence. He's sort of like an Andy Murray, for lack of a better expression, where he could defend the hell of out anybody.

But his serve was letting him down. He wasn't serving at a high enough percentage in first serves. He needed to make one or two technical adjustments, and he needed to get more balls in play and also look to be more offensive, because the guys that you play now are too good. If you just keep defending, they're eventually going to step up.

The key for him is to not just defend. He defends great, we know that, but also to play some offence.


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You have also changed his serve, right?
On the serve, we brought his feet closer together. His legs are his powerful base. He's obviously got incredibly strong legs, so we're trying to incorporate that more into the serve.

If you had to compare last year to this year, he looks a little bit more like Roddick-esque. He's kind of jumping more straight up and down. He's much more comfortable with it.

Chung was on board with the changes?
Yeah, whenever you do a thing with the player, the player has to be comfortable with it, or they're just not going to do it. So he's really comfortable with it. He's able to do more with his serve. He feels like he gets more free points [with his first serve], as well as on the second serve, he can do more on the second serve, which is especially important.

What other tweaks have you helped make in his game?
Maybe just help him be slightly more tactically aware. Often he'll hit the ball really well, but it goes sort of around the service-line area... He hits it clean, but it doesn't do anything because the ball lands short. You've hit a good shot, but now the other guy is playing offence.

Trying to make him more aware of the depth of the ball, or the space of the ball. Not hitting down the middle so much, but maybe more to one corner or to the other corner.

How do you practise that? What drills do you use?
We haven't had that much time on the practice court. We had one week in December when we did some of that. It's just creating an awareness with him. 'OK, that's a good ball, but you don't want to hit the ball in the middle, you want to hit the ball more away from the guy, so you get the guy moving.

'The more the other guy is moving, now it becomes a moving battle and you move better than anybody, just about, so that favours you'.

How early into a partnership do you pitch something new?
It's just a trial-and-error thing. As a coach you're kind of throwing ideas out there all the time. It's like fishing – you throw it out. One idea might stick and you roll with that for a little while. And then you throw another idea out, and you're constantly throwing ideas out and you just never know what's going to stick. Sometimes things are really quick to take, and sometimes they just take a little bit longer.

You went from working with Kevin, who's having a great year, to working with Chung, who's also having a great year. But they're at different spectrums of their careers.
Kevin is 32 years old now. When I started with him he was 28. He always had a really good sense of what he wanted to do, and where he wanted to get better. We worked on that regard. Trying to find out the best way forward for him.

With Chung, it's different. It's a little bit more of a blank canvas with a 21-year-old. There's sort of more scope, because there's less scarring, if you like. He hasn't lost as many matches. He hasn't won as many matches, but there's just much less water under the bridge.

Who did you work with before Kevin?
No one before Kevin. I was back in South Africa, and I was looking to get on the Tour, and it's not the easiest gig to get... [Kevin] approached me and we had four great years together. I'm very, very grateful to Kevin for giving me the opportunity.

Really happy for him that he's single digit in the ATP Rankings now... That's a massive achievement in a tennis player's career.

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[Lucas]

To nie była też ćwiartka IW?

Ze strony ATP wynika, że tak. Dziadek Go poskładał.

[DUN I LOVE]

Tak, ćwiartka. Nie wiem skąd ten półfinał mi się wziął.

[Damian]

02.04.2018

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 19

[Lleyton]

[Damian]

Oświadczenie Chunga w sprawie wycofania z Lyonu i Roland Garros:

[arti]

Hyeon Chung wycofał się z Rolanda Garrosa. Ma problem ze stawem skokowym

Spoiler:

Hyeon Chung z powodu kontuzji stawu skokowego nie weźmie udziału w wielkoszlemowym Roland Garros 2018. Koreańczyk już w środę wycofał się z turnieju ATP World Tour 250 na kortach ziemnych w Lyonie.

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Stan Wawrinka zagra w Genewie, mimo złych relacji z organizatorami. "Nie czuję się tutaj mile widziany "

- Niestety musiałem się wycofać z turnieju w Lyonie i Rolanda Garrosa. Przez cały sezon gry na mączce narzekałem na uraz kostki. Skan wykazał, że w stawie skokowym zebrał się płyn, co może wymagać wykonania małego zabiegu oraz dłuższego okresu wypoczynku - poinformował na Twitterze Hyeon Chung.



Koreańczyk wystąpił na mączce tylko w dwóch turniejach. W Monachium odpadł w półfinale po porażce z Niemcem Alexandrem Zverevem. Z kolei w Madrycie szybko rozgromił go Holender Robin Haase. Azjatycki tenisista nie przystąpił do rywalizacji w Rzymie, a w środę podjął decyzję o wycofaniu się z imprezy w Lyonie. Teraz zrezygnował z gry na kortach Rolanda Garrosa.








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Chung po raz drugi w obecnym sezonie ma problem ze stopami. W styczniu doznał urazu tej części ciała podczas wielkoszlemowego Australian Open 2018 i musiał wycofać się w trakcie półfinałowego pojedynku ze Szwajcarem Rogerem Federerem.

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[Barty]

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[Damian]

Pressure? Hyeon Chung Knows More About Pressure Than Most

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No one has been more clutch than Chung, who makes his return to Atlanta this week, during the past 52 weeks
Before Milan, where Hyeon Chung won the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals last November, and before Melbourne, where the South Korean reached his maiden Grand Slam semi-final in January, Chung showed his tour-leading clutch tennis in Incheon, South Korea.

At the 2014 Asian Games, Chung and countryman Yong-kyu Lim faced four match points in the doubles semi-finals, and much was on the line for the pairing.

Lose and they, like all South Korean males, would still be subject to almost two years of mandatory military service. But win the gold medal, and they'd be exempt.

“For Asians it's really big tournament... especially for Koreans because Koreans have to go to the Army. It's a big thing,” Chung told ATPWorldTour.com.

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He and Lim came back from 4/6 in the second set tie-break and 7/9 in the Match Tie-break to reach the final, Chung said. As fans cheered after every point and sometimes even shouted and exhaled after every shot, the South Koreans won the country's first tennis gold medal in 28 years.

“I think the Asian Games started [it for me],” said Chung, who was 18 at the time and eventually served only four weeks in the military. “Because when I'm in the Asian Games, I'm really happy and I had many good, positive things so that I can win Next Gen last year, I can make Grand Slam semis.”

No one has played sweaty-palm situations better than Chung during his big runs and during the past 52 weeks, according to his “Under Pressure” rating on the Infosys ATP Stats LEADERBOARDS. The statistic is based on break points converted, break points saved, tie-breaks won and deciding sets won, and Chung's 247.6 rating is almost a point better than Juan Martin del Potro's (third, 246.7) and more than two points better than Roger Federer's (fifth, 245.5).

“He is able in the big moments to knuckle down and not think too much about what the end result is, and he's able to execute really well in the big moments, which is a skill in itself, and I think that's why the results show in the stats,” Neville Godwin, his coach, told ATPWorldTour.com.

Watch Chung's My Story


Chung will look to use those skills for the first time in more than two months as he returns this week at the BB&T Atlanta Open. A right ankle injury that took longer than expected to rehab has kept him out of play since 8 May when he lost in the first round of the Mutua Madrid Open.

At the time, Chung had made at least the quarter-finals at seven of his eight tournaments and was in sixth place in the ATP Race To London.

But, after missing 11 weeks, he has fallen to the 17th spot in the Race and trails eighth-placed Kevin Anderson by 1,440 points.

“Obviously I would have liked him to play on the clay, and definitely on the grass as well because he was having such a great run and obviously in contention to go to London... It could be a bridge too far now,” Godwin said.

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“The goal for the rest of the year is to really just stay healthy and keep building on the things that we started working on at the beginning of the year.”

Chung played in Atlanta last year for the first time, falling to #NextGenATP American Tommy Paul in three sets. Hard courts have been Chung's best surface on tour. The 6'2” right-hander has won almost 60 per cent of his matches on hard courts (53-36), compared to 58 per cent of his matches overall (71-52), according to his FedEx ATP Win/Loss Record.

“I'm just trying to move the legs, and I'm just trying to play my best. Breathe... Stay calm. Trying to think about positive things,” Chung said of playing under pressure.

Not everyone, however, has been so enamored with Chung's clutch play. Indian Divij Sharan and his partner Yuki Bhambri lost the four match points against Chung/Lim at the Asian Games. Had Sharan/Bhambri reached the final, they would have faced another Indian team, guaranteeing their home nation a gold medal in tennis.

Sharan, who, with Kiwi Artem Sitak, is the top doubles seed in Atlanta, has seen video clips of the match. But he struggles to describe how a shot at gold slipped away from them.

“That was obviously a really, really close match,” Sharan told ATPWorldTour.com, “and I guess looking back, I just think, that was a tough one, just a match they had to win. It was just crazy.”

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[Lleyton]

[Damian]

Chung Holds Off Fritz In ATP World Tour Return

Spoiler:

South Korean third seed wins first match in more than two months
Hyeon Chung made a triumphant return to the ATP World Tour on Wednesday to defeat #NextGenATP American Taylor Fritz at the BB&T Atlanta Open. The 2017 Next Gen ATP Finals champion saw off the 20-year-old American 6-4, 7-6(5) to reach the quarter-finals.

The South Korean had reached his maiden Grand Slam semi-final in January at the Australian Open and made the quarter-finals or better at seven events this season before a right ankle injury kept him sidelined since 8 May. This was his first match since an opening round defeat at the Mutua Madrid Open.

"I'm really happy to win after two months injured,” Chung said. “I'm really trying to focus on the match but it was a little bit hot, so I had to try to focus on all of the points. Physically I felt all good because I was training a lot in the past two months."

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Fritz, sixth place in the Race to Milan, was bidding to reach his fourth ATP World Tour quarter-final of the season. Trailing a set and a break, he managed to peg back level for 4-4 in the second set before the South Korean went on to clinch the pair’s first FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting in a tie-break.

"He has a really good serve and big forehand, so I had many chances to finish in the second set but he was serving ace, ace, ace,” Chung said. “Tough second set. Anyway I'm really happy to win the match. After 10 weeks, I was really happy to be on the court."

He will next meet another American, No. 8 seed Ryan Harrison, for a place in the semi-finals. Harrison fought back to claim a 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 result over Slovak Lukas Lacko.

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German Mischa Zverev ended Russian Mikhail Youzhny’s final Atlanta campaign on Wednesday. The No. 7 seed prevailed 6-4, 6-2 over the 36-year-old former World No. 8. Youzhny announced after his opening round defeat of Emil Reinberg he would retire after the St. Petersburg Open in September.

"I think the conditions were good for me,” Zverev said. “Youzhny doesn't like it, I think, when the ball bounces too high and goes quick through the air. So I was able to get a lot of easy points off of him, especially with my serve and also when he was serving using his second serve. I think that was key.”

The 30-year-old was coming off a run to his maiden ATP World Tour title last month on the grass at the Nature Valley International. He awaits the winner of top seed John Isner and Australian Alex de Minaur in the quarter-finals.

“Eastbourne was beautiful. It was a great, great feeling, a great experience,” he said. “I'm happy I can finally say yeah I have a title, which is good."

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[Lleyton]

[Damian]

Chung Remembers His 'ATP Firsts'

Spoiler:

2017 Next Gen ATP Finals champion shares the first time he was recognised and his pinch-me moment on the ATP World Tour
Hyeon Chung is back. The South Korean returned triumphantly on Wednesday, beating #NextGenATP American Taylor Fritz to reach the BB&T Atlanta Open quarter-finals. After reaching his eighth quarter-final of the season, Chung took time to talk with ATPWorldTour.com about his "ATP Firsts", including the first time he was mobbed in the Seoul airport.

First moment I realised I loved tennis
When I won my first tournament. Like 11, 12. The national tournament in Korea. I don’t know where. Most of the Korean kids were playing.

First coach and most important lesson he/she taught me
Many coaches, but I had one big coach before. I toured with him for four, five years, Mr Yoon. Yong-Il Yoon.

Watch: Chung Thrilled About Triumphant Return In Atlanta


First pinch-me moment on the ATP World Tour
When I saw Roger, Rafa and Novak in the locker room. My first main draw Grand Slam was Wimbledon (2015).

First time I was recognised
At the Seoul airport, after my wins in Melbourne this year. 'Can I take a picture, have an autograph?'

First time in another country
Eleven years old, for the Orange Bowl in Florida, with the Korean national team, all Korean boys.


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First thing I bought with prize money
When I got the first ATP [Rankings] points, my coach bought for me the Beats [headphones]. Silver.

First pet
When I was young, once, I had a turtle for a few years, but I moved... I couldn’t have her so I gave her to my friends... [Now] I want a pet but I live in an apartment in Korea, and I can't get a pet in an apartment. When I retire from tennis, I will try to get a pet, a little dog or something... I don't know [which kind]; I'll have to think about it.

First music album
Psy, went to his concert in Korea, a lot of people were there.

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[Damian]

Earlier, inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals champion Hyeon Chung also advanced. The South Korean rebounded to deny Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-3 and will meet either American No. 11 seed Steve Johnson or #NextGenATP Australian Alex de Minaur.

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[DUN I LOVE]

Chung odniósł pierwsze zwycięstwo ever w Cincy. Trzeba przyznać, że dostał idealnego rywala, by to uczynić.

[Barty]

[Barty]

Sixth seed Hyeon Chung, the reigning 2017 Next Gen ATP Finals titlist, fought past Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6(4), 6-2. Their second-round match resumed on Tuesday with Chung leading 5/2 in the first-set tie-break after rain suspended the contest Monday night.