ATP World Tour Uncovered presented by Peugeot looks ahead to the five-tournament 2017 Asian Swing - the Chengdu Open, Shenzhen Open, Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, China Open and Shanghai Rolex Masters.
Success is coming sooner than Wu Yibang expected. The 17-year-old Chinese prospect only won the US Open junior singles and doubles titles less than two weeks ago in New York. Now he stands one match away from landing his maiden ATP Challenger Tour title on home soil in Shanghai. Top seed, Chinese Taipei’s Yen-Hsun Lu, is his final hurdle. And Wu realises how great a hurdle that is, with Lu’s 29-title haul making him the all-time Challenger leader. Lu holds a 20-3 record in Challenger finals since 2008. “I played him last month in the Chengdu semi-finals, lost to him in the final set,” Wu said. “I know he is better than me, especially from the baseline but in that...
ATP World Tour Uncovered presented by Peugeot goes behind the scenes at the 2016 Shanghai Rolex Masters, including interviews with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Tomas Berdych.