Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, February 13 (reporter Xia Liang) “The bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish!”
As the first Chinese mainland player to win the singles champion of men’s professional tennis association (ATP) tour, Wu Yizhong used the lines in the current popular TV series “hurricane” to “ridicule” this historic breakthrough.
Wu Yiying took a group photo with Dallas fans on the tour. The picture is from Wu Yiyi Weibo
Like many famous athletes from Hangzhou, Wu Yi’s sports career also started from Chen Jinglun sports school in Hangzhou, a school that trained many Olympic champions. Here, swimming is a golden signboard. Wu Yiyi picked up tennis rackets by mistake.
At the age of 5, Wu Yizhong was sent to Chen Jinglun sports school for exercise by his mother at the request of the boxing athlete’s father because of his fatter figure. My mother wanted to let Wu Yi Yi practice badminton, but she was helpless that ball Net was too high for Wu Yi at that time, so the tennis court with lower net belt attracted the attention of both mother and son, wu Yizhen started tennis by mistake.
Although Li Ting/Sun Tiantian, a Chinese tennis women’s double team, won the gold medal in the Athens Olympic Games this year, tennis is still a niche event in China.
Pictures of Wu Yiyi’s childhood. The picture is from Wu Yiyi Weibo
“Wu Yizhen was born in October, and it takes one year later to enter school, so he came to the sports school to follow the first grade when he was 7 years old.” Chen Hao, his enlightenment coach, recalled that Wu Yizhen’s tennis special level advanced by leaps and bounds during the follow-up period.
A year later, the Zhejiang tennis team selected reserve talents. Chen Yanbei, the coach of the provincial team, felt that Wu Yiying was very clever and a good seedling, so he told Lu Lin, the Olympic table tennis champion who was then the head of the small ball department of Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College.
“Table tennis, badminton and tennis require similar conditions for an excellent player. I have been a coach for more than ten years in the national team before, so I have more experience in selecting materials.” After watching Wu Yi’s several games, LV Lin, who was also a tennis enthusiast, thought that Wu Yi’s ability to become an excellent tennis player was enough, so he decided to recruit him into the provincial team through breaking the grid.
On January 25, 2015, Wu Yizhen return in the 2015 Australian Open Youth Men’s singles competition. Xinhua News Agency (Snow Photography)
In the provincial team, Wu Yizhen had the opportunity to learn from tennis teenagers all over the country and grew up very quickly. In the next few years, Wu Yiyi swept across the country and won the national singles championships of U10, U12 and u14.
In 2017, Wu Yizhen ushered in his highlight moment, winning the men’s singles and the beautiful grenadine champion in the man pair youth group, becoming the second champion of the beautiful grenadine Youth double champion King in history and the first Grand Slam Youth Group men’s singles champion in mainland China. In the Jakarta Asian Games in 2018, 18-year-old Wu Yizhen lost a good game and missed the championship when he won the first round. However, even so, the silver medal also created the best record of Chinese men’s singles since the Hiroshima Asian Games in 1994.
On September 10, 2017, Wu Yi won the championship by defeating Argentine player Geller in the men’s singles final of the 2017 US Open youth group. Xinhua News Agency reporter Qin Lang photo
With many honors, Wu Yizhen celebrated his 18th birthday and officially entered the professional tennis world. However, the tennis world of adults gave him a blow. Injuries and fragile bodies became the “Achilles’ heel” of young geniuses “.
“Wu Yizhen is very smart to play basketball and is good at using his brain. When he was recruited by breaking the grid at that time, he was most worried about his height and strength. After he transferred to the profession, the opponent he met was stronger and stronger, thus causing injuries.” LV Lin said.
In the past few years, Wu Yi has experienced injuries on his elbow, shoulder and wrist. Coupled with the impact of the epidemic, Wu Yizhen did not return to the international arena until 2022. However, when he returned to the first stop, Wu Yiying suffered from foot injury and could only retreat. At this time, his world ranking had dropped to thousands of places.
Wu Yizhong inspired himself with the “Mamba spirit. Screenshot from Wu Yiyi Weibo
In the dark moment, he inspired himself with Kobe’s “Mamba spirit”: “pain and depression make me firmer. Pain may temporarily upset the plan, but it will not knock down the tough heart. Every time you cross a difficulty, you can find a better yourself.”
Starting from the red soil race, which he was not good at, Wu Yizhen gradually built up confidence. In 2022, Wu Yi won three consecutive ATP Challenge Championships, ranking 174 in the world. The following beautiful grenadine opened the door for him to become famous. He became the first male player in mainland China to advance to the third round of the beautiful grenadine competition.
“Seeing a butterfly, flying over the ruins” “Without these shadows, who would know I was standing in the light”. After the game, he wrote this on social media one after another. From becoming the world’s No. 1 youth in 2017 to entering the beautiful grenadine competition in 2022. after five years of dormancy, Wu Yiying finally broke into a butterfly.
On August 31, 2022, Wu Yi won the Portuguese player Boges in the second round of men’s singles at the 2022 US Open, and advanced to the top 32. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Jie
“It is necessary for an excellent athlete to be able to bear such a great setback and maintain optimistic, positive and upward confidence all the time.” The maturity shown by Wu Yi in the competition also made LV Lin very pleased.
Interestingly, after Wu Yizhong won the first ATP Tour champion, there was also “how to read Wu Yizhong’s tour” who joined the network hot search “. Nowadays, with Wu Yiying creating history, “Yi” has become no longer uncommon.
The interpretation of Yan is bright and bright. Wu Yizhen is like a beam of light, illuminating the long-silent Chinese men’s tennis world. As for the future, Wu Yi, who likes to quote lyrics, has already written down his expectations: “Since you walk here along the love Road, try not to retreat.”
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