Yesterday I wrote an article, titled "2025, the tour is rare to see Chinese men's red, ZZZ, Xiaobu go hand in hand and advance", this article was placed in "Tennis Home", attracted a lot of netizens to read, three fans from Fujian and Hubei left a message for this article, thank you to these three fans here.

Since 2022, when Chinese men's tennis began to improve by leaps and bounds, many fans seem to have become accustomed to Chinese men's tennis players achieving victories. They seem to have forgotten that Zhang Ze was the only one who had won the ATP CH125 Challenger tournament in Chengdu before. Moreover, this championship was won when Zhang Ze was about to equalize the handicap, but the opponent was accidentally injured. Objectively speaking, there are some lucky elements to his victory. Even now, there are still only three Chinese men's tennis players in the TOP200. These facts tell us that while Chinese men's tennis still has a lot of room for improvement, it needs more reporting, understanding and support for some backbones.

At the ATP CH125 Challenger in Bahrain this week, China's Sun Fajing arrived alone in the unfamiliar Arab world. The player had a 2024 season against Croatia's Čurić, who won the Masters, and has some quality. However, since his best record in the Challenger tournament was only reaching the quarterfinals, which was all done in China, and Sun Fajing's first-round opponent in the tournament was the tournament's eighth seed, France's Atemana, who had beaten Sun Fajing in the 2024 season after losing a set in the first set, so many people thought that Sun Fajing might not be able to go far. Sure enough, in this match, Sun Fajing only won five games, and the scores of the two sets were 3:6 and 2:6 respectively. Judging from this score, the gap between Sun Fajing and his opponent is undoubtedly very huge.

Cui Jie, who reached the final of his first Challenger tournament some time ago, arrived in Spain this week, where he will face former world top 10 player and Spaniard Busta in the first round of the second Challenger at ATP CH75 Tenerife. Not only is the player a former Masters champion, but he has also reached the semi-finals of a major twice. However, in the face of such an opponent, Cui Jie only won three games in the first set and fell behind in the second set, using his baseline attack skills to equalize the score for a while, although he still lost to the opponent in the end, but many fans saw hope.

It is worth mentioning that although Sun Fajing and Cui Jie were swept out of the tournament by the highly-seeded players and were unable to go further, both of them have risen in the world rankings to a certain extent. This fully shows that in fact, in many cases, when Chinese men's tennis players dare to go out to participate in high-level competitions, this courage itself deserves our respect. Perhaps, the fans should be more understanding and supportive of them, so that they may be able to feel understood and supported while continuing to improve.

A lot of times, the world of tennis is really just a teahouse. In this teahouse, there are many, many tea customers who have been here for a long time, and some of them have become quite famous. However, there are always fledgling tea drinkers who come here and look forward to tasting the sweet tea with their own efforts. And the author is just a small scholar in the corner of this teahouse who tells the stories of these tea customers in obscurity. I hope my article can bring some fresh information to all fans. Whether it's compliments or criticisms, maybe it's just to be able to get me far. That's it for today, and it continues tomorrow.(Source: Tennis Home Author: Yixin Jushi)