In the 2022 ATP1000 Indian Wells Masters Qualifier Tiebreaker Competition, 17-year-old Shang Chengcheng from the Chinese men's tennis world forced back germany's Moran, who was 400 places higher than himself, to enter the men's singles main tournament of the highest level Masters for the first time in his career, and after getting two qualifiers, Shang Juncheng's world ranking was immediately ranked 430, and the opponent in the first round of the main round was also the qualifier Munnar. Shang Juncheng comes from a sports family, and her mother Wu Na was once famous as the three Olympic champions of Lian Ke Chen Jing, Deng Yaping and Kong Linghui at the 1997 World Table Tennis Championships.
Indian Wells of the United States this week ushered in the WTA1000 and ATP1000 two top tennis events at the same time, the event has a long history, the level is second only to the top crown of the four Majors, Chinese women Wang Qiang broke through from the qualifiers to advance to the main tournament, Yuan Yue and Wang Xinyu stopped qualifying, and Zheng Qinwen defeated Russia's Zvonareva in the first round of women's singles, becoming the first Chinese jinhua to advance to the second round of singles. Due to the generally low ranking of Chinese men's tennis players, Shang Juncheng was able to participate with the qualification wild card issued by the organizing committee, and the opponent German Moran ranked 128th in the world in the qualifying round, far higher than Shang Juncheng, who ranked 500 abroad before the tournament.
In the first set of the game Shang Cheng Cheng took the lead in serving, he took advantage of the left hand, was shooting flashing to open the angle of the ball, the opponent Moran has not yet adapted to the offensive rhythm of Shang Juncheng, several unforced mistakes, and finally Shang Juncheng successfully saved the serve, and in the second set of Moran's serve to force out the break point, but unfortunately failed to cash, Moran struggled to save the serve. In the next 3 innings, Shang Juncheng had a thrilling and risky save for 2 innings, and the opponent Moran also saved 1 set, and after coming to the 6th set, Shang Juncheng won the break opportunity 3 times in succession, until the 3rd break point was difficult to win, the score became 4-2, and then the two sides each saved 1 set, and Shang Juncheng won the first set 6-3 after winning the 9th set without suspense.
In the second set of the game Moran took the lead in serving, Shang Juncheng attacked unabated, the bottom line confrontation in two consecutive changes of line, 0-30 behind when Moran told the referee and opponent that he had an injury to retire, Shang Juncheng advanced to the Indian Wells Masters main tournament, this is the 17-year-old young player Shang Zhencheng first entered the men's singles main tournament at the highest level of the top event, luck continues to accompany him free, will meet Munnar who also qualified from the qualifier in the first round of the main tournament, Shang Juncheng set the record for the youngest master of the masters.
Shang Juncheng comes from a sports family, his parents are athletes, and his father Shang Yi was the main player of Beijing Guoan Football Club, and stayed in the Spanish Second Division in his early years. Mother Wu Na is the world champion of national table tennis, in the 1997 Manchester World Table Tennis Championships women's singles competition, defeated the Seoul Olympic champion Chen Jing, and won 1 set in the semi-finals, but was reversed by Wang Nan 3-1 and did not have the opportunity to play against Deng Yaping's women's singles duel, Wu Na and Liu Guoliang defeated the Olympic champion Partner Deng Yaping / Kong Linghui in the mixed doubles event, and reached the top of the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time. In 1997, Wu Na, Li Ju and Yang Ying won the women's team championship at the National Games, and then in the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Wu Na made her last appearance as a member of the women's team champion.