The Paper's reporter Qi Dong
As the child of former national football striker Shang Yi and table tennis world champion Wu Na, Shang Juncheng's tennis road has attracted attention from the outside world from the beginning, and the 16-year-old is also making history.
In the 15K final in Vero Beach in the early morning of the 24th, Shang Cheng defeated Venezuela veteran R. Rodriguez 7-6, 6-4 to win three ITF senior championships in four weeks.
Business completion.
Shang Juncheng has now won a 10-game winning streak – 16 wins and 1 loss in the main stage of the adult competition, and the real world ranking has reached 720th.
Shang is also the fifth player in the squad to win three Hope Tournament titles at the age of 16, and in front of him is a series of shining names.
Active male athletes win the third ITF title in the youngest Top5:
Nadal: 16 years and 3 months
Del Potro: 16 years, 7 months, 7 days
Rublev: 16 years, 7 months, 11 days
Alcaraz: 16 years, 8 months, 14 days
Shang Juncheng: 16 years, 8 months and 22 days
Shang Juncheng and the trophy group photo.
Looking back at shangcheng this month, on September 26, in the ITF Fayetteville M15 men's singles final, Shang cheng defeated Britain's Whitehouse 6-3, 6-0, and won the championship in the first senior group competition.
Previously, in the US Open junior group competition, Shang Juncheng won the men's singles runner-up.
On October 17, in the ITF Napoli 15K men's singles final, Shang Juncheng defeated Valle 6-3, 7-6 to win the second individual adult competition.
After winning the third ITF event, Shang Said cheng said: "I want to (break into the top 100 in the world rankings) a big goal, after all, I am only 16 years old now, that will be the direction I will strive to pursue in the future, the most important thing at this moment is to take it slowly step by step." ”
"I'm really happy, especially the last two weeks of winning consecutive titles and being able to do that in professional competitions is really special. I've played confidently for the past two weeks and done my best. I was quite relaxed and found the rhythm of the game. ”
In addition, Shang Juncheng also said that he will not play youth games in the future, "I think the goal of each player is to play professionally, mainly to play some bigger games." ”
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