How China’s Shang Juncheng made history with record win at Australian Open
Shang Juncheng, who is the son of a Chinese football player, is well aware of the brutal nature of competitive sports and the enormous burden that failure can bring। It is precisely because he is descended from a Chinese football player that Shang has learned from a young age how to reduce and release pressure, developing a stubborn desire not to accept defeat।
This extraordinary mental toughness was fully on display by the 18 – year- old tennis talent on Tuesday in the opening round of the Australian Open. After taking an early lead in the first set and dropping the next two sets to American prodigy Mackenzie McDonald, Shang produced an incredible comeback to defeat his more illustrious opponent by a slim margin of 3-2.
Shang, who is ranked 142nd, has an amazing ability to make the most of 50% of his break points. McDonald, on the other hand, who had risen to a career-high ranking of 37th in the world, found it difficult to convert his break point possibilities, only succeeding at a rate of 28 percent. This ended up playing a major role in McDonald’s demise.
With this triumph , Shang achieved his first-ever five-set victory in a Grand Slam competition, securing his status as the first male player from the Chinese mainland to reach the Australian Open second round for two years running.
Shang saw his victory over McDonald as both a historical first and a delectable taste of retribution . They had met in the opening round of the Zhuhai Open the previous year. Shang was unable to play at his best due to cramps in the final set, which cost him a heartbreaking defeat.
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