Hyeon Chung became the first South Korean man of all-time to reach the Australian Open fourth round after coming from behind to beat World No. 4 Alexander Zverev 5-7, 7-6(3), 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 on Saturday. "I'm just so happy to make the fourth round in [a Grand] Slam with so many good players," Chung said. "I don't want to stop here. [I want to] keep going." Chung, who now owns a 2-0 lead in his FedEx ATP Head2Head series with Zverev, recorded his first Top 5 win in the three-hour, 22-minute contest with the help of 19 winners to his opponent's nine in the final two sets. The reigning Next Gen ATP Finals champion will face Novak Djokovic for a...
Radu Albot and Hyeon Chung, the Next Gen ATP Finals titlist, scored a massive upset in the Australian Open doubles second round on Friday when they knocked out defending champions Henri Kontinen and John Peers 6-4, 7-6(5) in one hour and 35 minutes. Marginally stronger on serve, Albot and Chung survived a power barrage from the second seeds, who struck 29 winners, to convert one of their three break point opportunities for a place in the third round. They now await the winners of 15th seeds Marcin Matkowski and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, and Robert Lindstedt and Franko Skugor. Elsewhere, sixth seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, who lost to Kontinen and Peers in the 2017 title match, earned another hard-fought victory...
South Korean Hyeon Chung set up a second-round meeting against fourth-seed American John Isner at the ASB Classic on Tuesday. The reigning Next Gen ATP Finals champion saved nine of 12 break points, winning five of the first six games in the deciding set of his 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 victory over American lucky loser Tennys Sandgren. Sixth seed Pablo Cuevas started his 2018 season with a routine 6-3, 6-2 win against Japan's Taro Daniel in Auckland. Cuevas broke four times and won 81 per cent of his first-serve points to coast in 77 minutes. The 32-year-old will next meet Russian Karen Khachanov. View Wednesday Schedule: Sock, Del Potro, Querrey & Isner Open Campaigns American Steve Johnson, who reached the semi-finals...
The rising stars of the ATP World Tour are ready to take the ASB Classic by storm this week in Auckland. But first, they tested their skills on a court of a different kind. #NextGenATP Denis Shapovalov and Stefanos Tsitsipas joined reigning Next Gen ATP Finals champion Hyeon Chung in a visit to the SKYCITY Breakers, a professional basketball team based in Auckland. The players took part in drills during the team’s pregame warm-up, practising ball handling skills and shooting, before going head-to-head in a 3-on-3 game. "I've never played basketball before and I've only watched it on TV, but I had a very good time today," said Chung. "It's difficult. Shooting and dribbling are not easy. "It's my first...
