Taylor Challenger: Wu Yixuan defeated Zhou Yi to win the first overseas challenge derby of the Chinese men's tennis team

On June 8, local time, Chinese men's tennis ushered in a historic breakthrough at the ATP Challenger CH75 Taylor Station - Wu Yixuan and Zhou Yi successfully met in the singles final, which was the first time that the Chinese men's tennis staged a "derby" in an overseas challenge.

Wu Yixuan data map

In the end, the two Chinese players battled it out in three sets in the final, with Wu Yixuan, who had broken through from the qualifying round, beating Zhou Yi 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to win his sixth ATP Challenger title and first since last year's Jinan Challenger. After winning seven consecutive matches to win the championship from the qualifying round, Wu Yixuan has gained 75 ranking points and US$14,200 in prize money, and Wu Yixuan's world ranking has risen to No.280, just 47 points away from qualifying for the US Open.

After winning the championship, Wu Yixuan posted his thoughts on winning the championship on his personal Weibo, and he wrote poetically: "And today, I raised my right hand very skillfully and knocked on the door three times rhythmically with my slightly bent index finger and middle finger. Next, Wu will continue to stay in North America to compete and go all out to hit the US Open qualifiers.

Wu Yixuan's road to winning the championship

Qualifying first round 6-1/6-3 Keisuke Saito

Deciding round 7-5 Ret. Cressie

The first round of the main draw is 7-5/4-6/6-2 Marlonny

Second round 7-6(3)/7-5 Escofier

1/4 finals 7-6 (2)/6-2 Rybakov

Semifinals 7-6 (1) / 6-4 Serre

Final 6-4/3-6/6-3 Zhou Yi

Zhouyi data map

Meanwhile, this is the first time in his career that he has reached the final of an ATP Challenger tournament, and after finishing runner-up with 44 ranking points and $8,330 in prize money, he jumped to No. 297 in the world rankings, 123 points shy of qualifying for the United States. This is the first time that Zhou Yi's world ranking career has exceeded the TOP300, which also makes as many as 8 Chinese mainland players in the ATP world ranking list this week!

This week ATPTOP300 Chinese mainland player rankings

No.69 Buyun Chaoket

No.73 Shang Cheng Cheng

No.88 Zhang Zhizhen

No.226 Bai Yan

No.241 Sun Fa Jing

No.280 Wu Yixuan

No.294 Cui Jie

No.297 Zhouyi

(Text, editor: Dato, photo: Li Jianyi)