Shockingly, none of the Chinese players in the Lu'an Hope Tournament reached the quarterfinals

With post-05 player Shang Juncheng winning two consecutive matches in the Indian Wells Masters qualifying tournament in 2022 and becoming the first Chinese men's tennis player to break through from the Masters qualifiers, in just three or four years, Chinese men's tennis players have made a series of breakthroughs in Grand Slams, tours, Challengers and Hope Tournaments.

Such a breakthrough has made more and more people start to pay attention to tennis. Under such circumstances, more and more organizations and enterprises have begun to work together to hold tours, challenges and hope tournaments in China. In many cases, these events are long in duration, so they are often referred to as the Chinese season. Objectively speaking, the holding of these tennis tournaments has given many Chinese players the opportunity to temper and improve, such as Zhang Tianhui, Zhou Yi and other players who have made new breakthroughs in their careers in the Chinese season. However, none of the Chinese men's tennis players reached the quarterfinals at the Lu'an Hope Tournament this week. So, what's going on here? Today, let this article take you to take a look.

A few days ago, a total of 64 players competed in the Lu'an Hope Qualifying Tournament for the chance to enter the main competition. Among these players, there are 33 Chinese players, accounting for more than half. After three rounds of fierce competition, four Chinese players, including Zeng Yaojie, Xu Weitao, Liu Hanyi, and Chen Xingdao, stood out from the qualifying round and entered the main match of the Lu'an Hope Race. However, in the first round, Chen Xingdao was sent two fritters by Huang Conghao, the eighth seed of the tournament and Taiwan, China; Xu Weitao and Liu Hanyi were also completely defeated by their opponents and stopped moving forward; Han Xiyue, who entered the main match as a lucky loser, was also swept out by his opponent.

Zeng Yaojie defeated a South Korean player in straight sets, becoming the only Chinese player to break through from the qualifying round and win in the main draw; Cui Jie, who won ten consecutive victories some time ago, defeated his opponent and successfully advanced; In the compatriot derby, Dong Zhenxiong gave away a duck egg in the second set when he took the lead in the tie-break, defeated He Junji, who was a wild card, and reached the second round.

Mongolian player Terigle, who won his third hope tournament of the year last week, won the compatriot derby in three sets before defeating Wang Aoran and was able to advance. Xiao Linang, who won his first career hope title not long ago, despite his best efforts, still lost in the deciding set to the tournament's sixth seed, Bulgaria's Gerasimov, and unfortunately went out; Mo Yecong, on the other hand, defeated the third seed of the tournament, South Korea's Shin Woo-bin, and successfully advanced.

With the victory of these players, the number of Chinese players in the second round is still as high as five. However, in the second round, Cui Jie was defeated by Japanese player Junsuke Mitsui from the qualifying tournament in straight sets and went out in two sets; Zeng Yaojie and Mo Yecong were completely defeated by their opponents. Coincidentally, the scores of these two games were 6:3 and 6:4. In the contest with American player Zhu Yulin, Mongolian player Terigle dropped a set first. In the second set, after falling behind by a large score, he chose to retire due to physical reasons. In this way, there is only one Chinese player left on the drawing table, Dong Zhenxiong.

In the contest with the sixth seed of the tournament, Bulgaria's Gerasimov, Dong Zhenxiong took the lead and once occupied the opportunity to advance, but unfortunately, in the subsequent game, he was reversed by his opponent in two sets in a row, and regretfully bid farewell to the Lu'an Hope Match. In this way, although only two rounds were played, however, there was no Chinese player in the Lu'an Hope Tournament. This is the second time that Chinese players have missed the quarterfinals since the start of the Chinese season of the Hope Tournament. I hope that in the next competitions, these Chinese players can learn from their experience and lessons and achieve good results. That's it for today, and it will continue tomorrow.(Source: Tennis Home Author: Yixin Jushi)