T39: Chengdu, Shenzhen 2017

[DUN I LOVE]

Yibing Wu zamyka dzień w Chengdu.

Teraz Fritz walczy z innym Wu.

[Damian]

20 Things To Watch In Chengdu & Shenzhen

Spoiler:

An executive summary of what every fan should know about the coming week on the ATP World Tour
The ATP World Tour's Asian swing kicks off with a pair of 250-level events on Chinese soil: the Chengdu Open and the Shenzhen Open. World No. 7 Dominic Thiem is the top seed in Chengdu, while fourth-ranked Alexander Zverev leads the field in Shenzhen.
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10 THINGS TO WATCH IN CHENGDU
(1) Asian Swing Gets Underway: The ATP World Tour returns to China with hard-court events in Chengdu and Shenzhen. The host nation boasts a pair of players in both singles main draws: Yibing Wu and Di Wu are in Chengdu, while Ze Zhang and Zhizhen Zhang are in Shenzhen.
(2) China’s Rising Star: Yibing Wu makes his ATP main draw debut against Thiago Monteiro on Monday. Wu, 17, won three titles in a nine-day span earlier this month, sweeping boys’ singles and doubles at the US Open before flying to Shanghai and capturing his first Challenger title without dropping a set. Wu is the first Chinese player to win a Grand Slam boys’ singles title and is the first teenage winner from his country on the ATP Challenger Tour. Learn more about the 17 year old
(3) No. 1 Again: Dominic Thiem, who was the top seed at the inaugural Chengdu Open in 2016, returns as the No. 1 seed this week. Thiem won his eighth career title in Rio de Janeiro in February. With a 46-20 record on the season, the Austrian is fourth in the Emirates ATP Race To London.
(4) Finalists Return: Defending Chengdu champion Karen Khachanov and runner-up Albert Ramos-Vinolas are seeded third and second respectively. Khachanov edged Ramos-Vinolas one year ago for his first ATP World Tour title. Should they meet again this week, it will be in the semi-finals on Saturday.
(5) Russian Emergence: Khachanov and countryman Andrey Rublev are next in line to qualify for the Next Gen ATP Finals at No. 3 and No. 2 respectively in the Emirates ATP Race To Milan. Rublev became the first current #NextGenATP player to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final at the US Open.
(6) #NextGenATP Invasion: Among the other #NextGenATP players in the Chengdu field are Jared Donaldson, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Borna Coric. Tsitsipas, a 19-year-old qualifier, is 0-6 in tour-level matches and seeking the first ATP World Tour win of his career against Donaldson, who is 18-17 in 2017.
(7) First-Time Champion: Peter Gojowczyk of Germany earned a special exempt entry after capturing his first ATP World Tour title in his first final on Sunday in Metz. Gojowczyk beat Benoit Paire to become the first qualifier to lift a trophy since Nicolas Mahut in ’s-Hertogenbosch in 2015.
(8) Unlikely Qualifier: Wimbledon doubles finalist Mate Pavic entered the Chengdu qualifying draw as an alternate, then defeated Yasutaka Uchiyama and Zihao Xia to earn a spot in the main draw. Pavic is unranked in singles and had not played a singles match all season until Saturday.
(9) The Other Wu: Joining Yibing Wu in the singles main draw is Di Wu (no relation), who meets #NextGenATP qualifier Taylor Fritz on Monday. The elder Wu, 26, seeks his first tour-level win of the season. Also competing together in doubles, Wu and Wu earned one of two wild cards, along with Fajing Sun and Rigele Te.
(10) Doubles Round-up: Thiem, Ramos-Vinolas, Coric and the team of Khachanov/Rublev are also in the doubles field. The No. 1 seeds are Pavic and Oliver Marach, who fell to Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 13-11 in the fifth set of the Wimbledon final after four hours and 39 minutes.
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10 THINGS TO WATCH IN SHENZHEN
(1) ATP Back in China: The ATP World Tour returns to China with 250-level events this week in Shenzhen and Chengdu. The host nation boasts a pair of players in both singles main draws: Ze Zhang and Zhizhen Zhang are playing in Shenzhen, while Yibing Wu and Di Wu are in Chengdu.
(2) One-Year Anniversary: On Monday, No. 1 seed Alexander Zverev celebrates the one-year anniversary of his first ATP World Tour championship. Zverev was ranked No. 27 when he won the St. Petersburg title on September 25, 2016. The 20-year-old is now ranked a career-high No. 4.
(3) Running Two Races: Zverev is tied with Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer for the ATP World Tour lead with five titles in 2017. The #NextGenATP superstar is third in the Emirates ATP Race to London and first in the Emirates ATP Race To Milan. Zverev has already qualified for the Next Gen ATP Finals, to be held Nov. 7-11, and is next in line to earn a spot at the Nitto ATP Finals at The O2 from Nov. 12-19.
(4) Year of the Zverevs: It’s been a career-year for third seed Mischa Zverev too. The elder Zverev brother reached the third round at Wimbledon, fourth round at the US Open and quarter-finals at the Australian Open, where he upset then-No. 1 Andy Murray. He broke into the Top 25 in July. He opens against either Dudi Sela or Matthew Ebden.
(5) Outside Looking In: Second seed David Goffin is currently 13th in the Emirates ATP Race To London. But with No. 5 Stan Wawrinka and No. 9 Novak Djokovic out for the season, Goffin is only three spots outside the cut-off for qualification at the eight-man Nitto ATP Finals. The 26-year-old Belgian has not reached a semi-final since injuring his right ankle at Roland Garros on June 2.
(6) Record-Setter: Fourth seed Paolo Lorenzi made history at the US Open earlier this month. The 35-year-old Italian became the oldest player in the Open Era to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time. Lorenzi is also the oldest first-time champion in ATP World Tour history (2016 Kitzbuehel). He opens against either Rogerio Dutra Silva or Zhizhen Zhang.
(7) First-Time Champion: Sixth seed Damir Dzumhur debuts in Shenzhen after capturing his first ATP World Tour title in St. Petersburg on Sunday and rising to a career-high No. 40 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. Four weeks earlier, Dzumhur played in his first final at Winston-Salem. The Bosnian is 12-2 since August 21.
(8) Local Favourites: Ze Zhang, 27, is one of two Chinese players to reach an ATP World Tour quarter-final in the Open Era, doing so at 2012 Beijing (also Bing Pan at 1995 Seoul). Zhizhen Zhang, 20, defeated Go Soeda at 2015 Shenzhen for his only ATP main draw victory. The Zhangs are not related.
(9) International Man of Mystery: Austrian-born Spaniard Nicola Kuhn’s ATP World Tour debut comes in China as a wild card at the Shenzhen Open. Kuhn, born on March 20, 2000, will be the second player with a 21st-century birthdate to contest an ATP World Tour match after 16-year-old Rudolf Molleker at Hamburg. He is one of four 17 year olds to lift an ATP Challenger Tour trophy this, having prevailed in Braunschweig, Germany. Learn more about Kuhn
(10) Getting to Know You: The Top 3 doubles seeds are first-time teams, including the third-seeded duo of fourth-ranked singles player Alexander Zverev and third-ranked doubles player Marcelo Melo. The unlikely tandem will debut against Hans Podlipnik-Castillo and Andrei Vasilevski.

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[DUN I LOVE]

Koniec snu Berniego o podbiciu Chengdu.

[Hankmoody]

Mizerna ta obsada u panów. Zobaczymy co Coric pokaże, na USO zaskoczył mnie pozytywnie.

[DUN I LOVE]

W Shenzhen dla odmiany Kuhn i Santillan grają o swoje marzenia.

[Barty]

Też śnią o podbiciu chinskiego miasta?

[DUN I LOVE]

To jest maleńki kroczek na drodze ku tenisowej nieśmiertelności, czyli tam gdzie są Roger, Rafael i Novak.

HAHAnow nie obroni tytułu w Chengdu. Kompromitujący występ, patrząc na suchy wynik.

[Damian]

[Barty]

Jak widać, wolał się zabawiać z pandami niż grac w tenisa.

[Mario]

Myślę, że czas najwyższy przestać się łudzić i dać sobie spokój z Chaczanowem. Fajny grajek, ale tu nic wielkiego nie będzie.

[DUN I LOVE]

Rubliow też rozwalcowany przez Lu.

[Damian]

Zverev, Thiem Receive Warm Welcome In China

Spoiler:

It hasn’t been all about tennis for players this week. ATPWorldTour.com provides a recap of the highlights.
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Chengdu Open - Chengdu, China
The top four seeds — Dominic Thiem, Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev — attended the Chengdu Open Players' Party at the St. Regis Chengdu, where they received a gift from the tournament with their names written in Chinese calligraphy.
Wu Yibing, who recently became the youngest Chinese winner on the ATP Challenger Tour circuit just a week after claiming the US Open Boys' Singles and Doubles titles, attended the draw ceremony.
#NextGenATP Karen Khachanov, Jared Donaldson and Taylor Fritz visited the Chengdu pandas at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Donaldson was on top of his panda trivia, asking, “Did you know that China owns the rights to every panda in the world, except two? Those two are in Mexico.” Read and Watch
Marcos Baghdatis and #NextGenATP Borna Coric put their culinary skills to the test, attempting to make Chinese meat dumplings. Read and Watch
“There are not a lot of similarities between American and Chinese culture - we don’t have bamboo and cultural places like this,” said Donaldson, who joined Sweden’s Mikael Ymer on a trip to ‘Wangjian Lou’, a cultural attraction in Chengdu that roughly means ‘river view pavilion.’ The duo learned calligraphy and played mini-tennis in the park. Read and Watch
Shenzhen Open - Shenzhen, China
Alexander Zverev and Mischa Zverev joined David Goffin and Paolo Lorenzi at the Shenzhen Open Players' Party. The Zverevs continued an annual tradition in which players competing in the event leave their handprint in a piece of artwork.
Alexander Zverev, the tournament's top seed, visited the Shenzhen Grand Gemdale Tennis Club in Pingshan, an hour’s drive off-site, where he held a clinic for players in the academy.
China’s own Ze Zhang and Israeli Dudi Sela attended the draw ceremony.
Lorenzi and Jeremy Chardy played mini-tennis in front of the tournament hotel to help launch the tournament.
Doubles players Marcelo Melo and Alexander Peya played tennis with local kids and offered photo opportunities.

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[DUN I LOVE]

Fryc ogarnął ćwiartkę.

[Hankmoody]

Tak sobie właśnie myślałem że Thiem przegra, mogłem chociaż 100 rzucić.
Alex z ogromnymi problemami doprowadził do 3 seta. Złapałem po ponad 5 tego ogra (za 200 przy 5:6* w drugim), więc oby już bez niespodzianek.

[DUN I LOVE]

Trzeba było łapać przy *1-4 *15-40 w deciderze.

[Hankmoody]

Piękny mecz (Zverev slabiutki. Męczył go Belg slajsem do Bh niemiłosiernie) . Sprzedałem jak odrobił braeka w deciderze ( prawie 700 stów mi wypłacili. Na czysto 500). I za 250 Zagrałem w taju przy 2:5* po 6.55. Dniowka jest. Tylko gigabajtow szkoda, bo oglądałem na telefonie, z racji z en jestem poza domem.

[DUN I LOVE]

Fajnie masz. Dniówka...

[polo90]

Fajnie masz. Dniówka...

Ten kto lubi pracować pracuje
Ten kto lubi sport lubi grać

To tylko kwestia podejścia do życia i do samego siebie

[Hankmoody]

Fajnie masz. Dniówka...

Tak dzisiaj wpadło, bo taka gra zazwyczaj to jednak wtopa. Ale lubię rzucić na faworyta który jest blisko porażki, często wyciągają z beznadziejnych sytuacji. Alexowi bardzo zależało i dlatego mu zaufałem, bo grał słabo.

[DUN I LOVE]

Dzumhur utrzymuje formę z Rosji.