HANGZHOU, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) — China’s girls’s tennis crew will try to defend their titles, whereas the boys’s gamers are additionally on observe for the gold medals on the upcoming Asian Games in Hangzhou.
With a complete of 11 athletes to compete in all 5 occasions, China despatched six feminine and 5 male athletes to Hangzhou, together with promising stars Zheng Qinwen, Zhang Zhizhen and Wu Yibing.
Zheng Qinwen, at the moment ranked twenty second on the planet, superior to the quarterfinals of the 2023 US Open after defeating final yr’s runner-up Ons Jabeur, marking a major breakthrough by reaching the ultimate eight of a Grand Slam occasion for the primary time. Zheng, nicknamed “Queen Wen”, expressed her expectations for her first journey to the Asian Games.
“There’s no special reason. It’s merely for honor and I hope to win glory for my country,” the 20-year-old mentioned.
While within the girls’s doubles, defending champions Yang Zhaoxuan and Xu Yifan poised as favorites to retain the glory on house soil.
Zhang Zhizhen rocketed to 52nd in July, a file excessive on the planet rankings for Chinese mainland males’s tennis gamers and for the primary time defeated a world top-five participant within the US Open. Zhang advised Xinhua that his principal objective for the Hangzhou Asian Games remains to be to win a gold medal within the singles, including that he may also search for good ends in doubles and combined doubles.
Wu Yibing, born in Hangzhou in 1999, took a silver medal on the Jakarta Asian Games in 2018 when he was 18 years outdated and ranked outdoors three hundredth on the planet at the moment. Five years on, he’s stuffed with sturdy confidence now.
“My aim is to grab all the golds in men’s tennis,” Wu mentioned about his Asian Games objective.
In spite of fierce competitors from Japan, South Korea and India, Zhang and Wu will collectively lead China’s combat for the highest of the rostrum.
Tennis turned an official competitors occasion on the Tokyo Asian Games in 1958. The tennis occasions in Hangzhou function males’s and ladies’s singles, males’s and ladies’s doubles and combined doubles, having males’s and ladies’s crew occasions decreased in contrast with the earlier Asian Games, wherein China achieved two golds and two silver medals.