Zhang Zhizhen fought again to turn out to be the primary Chinese language males’s singles tennis champion on the Asian Video games since 1994 with a victory over Japan’s Yosuke Watanuki on Saturday in Hangzhou.
Zhang was the primary man from China to beat a top-five participant final month when he defeated Casper Ruud to achieve the final 32 on the US Open.
The 26-year-old from Shanghai additionally reached the identical stage at this 12 months’s French Open, and he grabbed his reward for a profitable 12 months with a 6-4, 7-6 (9/7) victory over Watanuki within the Hangzhou remaining.
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In entrance of a roaring dwelling crowd, the Sixtieth-ranked Zhang made a sluggish begin and fell 4-1 behind within the first set after being damaged twice by 77th-ranked Watanuki.
However he gained the subsequent 5 video games to take the primary set, then held his serve for 4-3 in a pivotal seventh recreation within the second.
The pair continued to slug it out right into a tiebreak, earlier than Zhang transformed his third match level and hurled away his racquet in celebration.
Earlier within the day, Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Chang Yung-jan gained gold in girls’s doubles.
The second-seeded pair beat fellow Taiwanese Lee Ya-hsuan and Liang En-shuo 6-4, 6-3.