2023-08-30 07:36 United Daily News reporter Zeng Siru / real-time report
For the first time in his career, Xu Yuxiu, a men’s tennis player who won three gold medals at the Chengdu World Universiade, made his first U.S. Open appearance. Today, he made another major breakthrough. In the first round of the US Open, he knocked down the world-ranked 78th-ranked Australian player Kokina in 4 sets. Thansi Kokkinakis became the third Taiwan male player to win a Grand Slam singles match.
The 24-year-old Xu Yuxiu won three Grand Slam junior men’s doubles gold cups in 2017. After turning professional, he will welcome a bumper year this year. At the beginning of the year, he passed three consecutive rounds of the Australian Open from outside the tournament and entered the Grand Slam for the first time in his career. In the US Open, he won 3 games in a row from outside the tournament and advanced to the inside tournament, becoming the only representative of Taiwanese singles this year.
Xu Yuxiu, ranked 237th in the world, faced Kokinakis in the early hours of Taiwan time this morning. He broke serve first in the fourth game of the first set. Although he missed the absolute advantage of 40:0 in the sixth game, he still succeeded with the only break and went 6:3 first. a city.
In the 6th game of the second set, Xu Yuxiu fell behind from 0:40 and broke his opponent’s 5 break points. After a thrilling security, he took advantage of the situation and successfully broke in the 7th game. He made another victory at 6:4 and also won the “drawing card” of the set. Advantage.
Although Xu Yuxiu was broken in the fourth game of the third set and gave up 3:6, he immediately broke Kokinakis’s first serve in the fourth set, took a 3:0 lead and maintained his advantage all the way, and finally won. Meet the victory with 6:3.
Xu Yuxiu defeated the world’s top 100 players for the first time in his career, becoming the third Baodao male player to win a Grand Slam match after Lu Yanxun and Wang Yuzuo. (Cameron Norrie), continue to challenge surprise.
Taiwanese tennis player Xu Yuxiu defeated his opponent in the first round of the men’s singles match at the US Open today.AFP
Before the U.S. Open, Xu Yuxiu brought back gold medals in Men’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles and Men’s Team at the Universiade in Chengdu. After the U.S. Open, he will go to the Hangzhou Asian Games for the first time in his career.
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