Woo Hoo For YIBING (Jason) WU: The Chinese Dawn In Men's Tennis

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Fresh off an emphatic run through the 2017 USO Boy's draw, 17-year-old Jason Wu continued his torrid streak by capturing the Shanghai Challenger without dropping a set from his WC position in the very bottom of the draw.

Appearing to suffer no ill effects from jet lag, Jason's first upset immediately after arriving in Shanghai was over #2 seed Peter Polansky. He then got a bit of needed rest when his 2R opponent Sekiguchi retired without winning a game, 5-0. From there, Wu eased past seeded Moriya, cooled off red-hot Bachinger in the SFs and finally faced the real Challenger King #1 seed Rendy Lu. This final was a rematch of the Chengdu Challenger SF in August but had a different outcome as the teen took the title when Lu retired with a bad shoulder after losing the opening set in a TB.

With the title, Jason becomes at least the sixth different teen to win at Challenger level this year (Jasika, Shapo, FAA, Kuhn and Tsitsipas before him). It's also nice we have four continents represented there. Tennis is expanding to the young talented international market and these kids will certainly fuel that growth.
 
stringertom said:
Fresh off an emphatic run through the 2017 USO Boy's draw, 17-year-old Jason Wu continued his torrid streak by capturing the Shanghai Challenger without dropping a set from his WC position in the very bottom of the draw.

Appearing to suffer no ill effects from jet lag, Jason's first upset immediately after arriving in Shanghai was over #2 seed Peter Polansky. He then got a bit of needed rest when his 2R opponent Sekiguchi retired without winning a game, 5-0. From there, Wu eased past seeded Moriya, cooled off red-hot Bachinger in the SFs and finally faced the real Challenger King #1 seed Rendy Lu. This final was a rematch of the Chengdu Challenger SF in August but had a different outcome as the teen took the title when Lu retired with a bad shoulder after losing the opening set in a TB.

With the title, Jason becomes at least the sixth different teen to win at Challenger level this year (Jasika, Shapo, FAA, Kuhn and Tsitsipas before him). It's also nice we have four continents represented there. Tennis is expanding to the young talented international market and these kids will certainly fuel that growth.
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Thanks for setting up the thread Tom. As I said over on the teenage thread, I really like watching this young guy play. He has a wonderful ease about his hitting and good movement. I'll be watching!
 
From the highlights of some of his matches available on YouTube, Wu looks like a very good striker of the ball and isn't afraid to go to the net now and again either. He should have a very good future.
 
TheGhostOfAgassi said:
Its this the start of the Chinese tennis invasion?

http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/shanghai-challenger-2017-wu-yibing-first-time-winner-spotlight
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Invasion? No, he has a good potential to surpass previous results from the Chinese men prior to his era. We'll have to see if he can get to the level of success Li Na reached in the women's game.

Things are opening up in Chinese culture slowly and it's nice to see he has been allowed access to training and coaching by Westerners. If he continues to develop, I'm sure other Chinese juniors may be headed to places like Spain to grow their games.
 
stringertom said:
Invasion? No, he has a good potential to surpass previous results from the Chinese men prior to his era. We'll have to see if he can get to the level of success Li Na reached in the women's game.

Things are opening up in Chinese culture slowly and it's nice to see he has been allowed access to training and coaching by Westerners. If he continues to develop, I'm sure other Chinese juniors may be headed to places like Spain to grow their games.
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Yes, China as a country is doing the right things in so many areas, I kind of expect them to do well in tennis in the years to come. Its really nice if other parts of the world than countries with European heritage can start to even dominate in tennis.
 
give 'em the WU !!!​
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"Fresh off an emphatic run through the 2017 USO Boy's draw"

I saw a good chunk of his run and there was nothing emphatic about it.

Whether he'll do anything on the tour I really have no idea. He has no weapons. He does have a nice all around game (mentally keeps it together as well) but strokes and overall game were for the most part indistinguishable to me from many of the rest of the juniors this year. I thought 2016 had a stronger boys group. I guess time will tell. Interesting that Geller (the #1 seed) is going to Stanford not pro.
 
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Tshooter said:
"Fresh off an emphatic run through the 2017 USO Boy's draw"

I saw a good chunk of his run and there was nothing emphatic about it.

Whether he'll do anything on the tour I really have no idea. He has no weapons. He does have a nice all around game (mentally keeps it together as well) but strokes and overall game were for the most part indistinguishable to me from many of the rest of the juniors this year. I thought 2016 had a stronger boys group. I guess time will tell. Interesting that Geller (the #1 seed) is going to Stanford not pro.
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Thanks for the insight. I haven't had much opportunity to watch him.
 
great thread/prospect :)
just saw the highlights of the junior final at the US open and i rather liked what i saw... ;)

backing it up so wuickly with a challenger wuin is wery good !
 
Wu has drawn unseeded Thiago Monteiro in 1R at ATP250 Chengdu. He is in the bottom half of the draw with seeds #2 ARV, #3 and defending champion Khachanov, #5 Sugita (his likely 2R opponent) and #8 Edmund.
 
stringertom said:
Wu has drawn unseeded Thiago Monteiro in 1R at ATP250 Chengdu. He is in the bottom half of the draw with seeds #2 ARV, #3 and defending champion Khachanov, #5 Sugita (his likely 2R opponent) and #8 Edmund.
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Didn't see th match but man that's a tough loss in front of your home crowd..
 
So he won the USO boys singles and doubles titles. Anyone watch much of him? What can we expect? He faces Simon in the first round of Shanghai.
 
Damn, watching a bit of highlights here, and the guy can cover a serious amount of ground. Looks like he takes the ball quite early as well.
 
The Green Mile said:
Damn, watching a bit of highlights here, and the guy can cover a serious amount of ground. Looks like he takes the ball quite early as well.
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We can hope that he has "it".....but really it is very early.
Having said that, having drawn Simon in Shanghai is an opportunity. Let's see how this plays out.
 
I think Nishioka is more talented than Wu. Nishioka has serious talent like Rios but more smart and even tempered
 
I watched the match but while working so not really following point per point. Seems like Wu has solid serve for his height, nice aggressive game and very agile/quick.
But haven't yet win a tour level match.
 
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