A victory in a Junior Grand Slam can, but does not have to be a sign of a decent men’s career.US Open Champion Wu Yibing has now, in any case, followed suit.
Denis Shapovalov and Félix Auger-Aliassime have demonstrated it, Alexander Zverev anyway: the almost smooth transition from winning a Grand Slam tournament at the junior level to a successful career start with the adults.Now the next teenager is trying to make his way, and with Wu Yibing, who won the US Open title in New York City a few days ago, an 18-year-old is about to set off on a journey that many eye pairs are focused on – after all, Wu is from China.
Last week, Wu proved that the junior champion of Flushing Meadows can already compete on a higher level – he got the 75,000 US Dollar ATP-Challenger in Shanghai.Which also brought him a wildcard for the ATP Masters 1000 tournament there.
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Wu’s predecessor, the 17-year-old Canadian Auger-Aliassime, had recently won the Challenger in Seville, before which he had already clinched victory in Lyon on the same level.Denis Shapovalov, on the other hand, has been so well in the men’s singles at Montréal and the US Open that he will be part of the world team at the Laver Cup in Prague, which starts on Friday.
In the “Race to Milan”, the annual ranking of the U-21 players in the professional men’s division, Wu Yibing has certainly made up a lot of ground: With his victory in Shanghai, he improved by 37 places and is now already in 45th place.