By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday January 15, 2023
Chinese 17-year-old Juncheng Shang has develop into the primary Chinese male to win a primary draw match on the Australian Open, after the World No.194’s 6-2 6-4 6-7(2) 7-5 over Germany’s Oscar Otte on Day 1.
Shang, often called “Jerry”, will flip 18 on February 2nd. He is the youngest participant on this 12 months’s males’s singles draw on the Australian Open, and one in all three youngsters (together with Holger Rune and Luca Van Assche). The victory was Shang’s first tour-level win.
He will face both Frances Tiafoe of Daniel Altmaier within the second spherical.
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The 17-year-old is the youngest participant within the males’s singles at #AO2023 and turns into the primary male Chinese participant to win an #AusOpen main-draw singles match within the Open Era.@wwos • @espn • @Eurosport • @wowowtennis pic.twitter.com/SzwIwU86oY
— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 16, 2023
It has been an excellent time for Chinese males on the Slams. At the US Open final 12 months Wu Yibing turned the primary Chinese man to win a primary draw match at a Grand Slam since 1935. Wu and his compatriot Zhang Zhizhen have been the primary two Chinese males to ever qualify for the primary draw on the US Open final 12 months as effectively.
