{"id":412400,"date":"2023-02-12T19:57:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T00:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412400"},"modified":"2023-02-13T00:58:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T05:58:38","slug":"wu-makes-history-becomes-first-chinese-man-to-win-atp-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wu-makes-history-becomes-first-chinese-man-to-win-atp-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu makes history, becomes first Chinese man to win ATP title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yibing Wu made history at the 2023 Dallas Open when he triumphed over American veteran John Isner to lift his maiden title on the ATP tour.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wu breaks through \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>Wu Yibing edges John Isner 6-7 7-6 7-6 at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DALOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DALOpen<\/a> to become the first Chinese player to ever claim an ATP title! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s80Zbd6ubk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/s80Zbd6ubk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1624893063104696320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite facing 44 aces from the big-serving Isner and saving four championship points, the 23-year-old Chinese prevailed to win 6-7(4), 7-6(3), 7-6(12).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wu wizardry \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>The moment Wu Yibing sealed his maiden ATP title at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DALOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DALOpen<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TpSRpzkJHP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TpSRpzkJHP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1624894374571286529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made history here for my country and for my home,\u201d said Wu during the trophy ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very proud of myself and especially thanks to all the fans and my team who came here to support. I couldn\u2019t do this without any of you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a break-less match, there was only five total break points had, with Wu holding two. Dallas resident Isner help a match point in the second and had three more in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Wu connected seven aces, won 69\/87 (79%) on first serves, 28\/41 (68%) on second serves.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"in\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2728 2023 Dallas Open Champion Wu Yibing \u2728 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DALOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DALOpen<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@atptour<\/a> | \ud83d\udcf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jalexsmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@jalexsmith<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rcGcP3sItJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rcGcP3sItJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dallas Open (@DALOpenTennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DALOpenTennis\/status\/1624914797178527745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 39th-ranked Isner cracked 44 aces, won 73\/90 (81%) of first serves, 20\/28 (71%) on second serves but up just short. He was just two aces away from the 3-set record held by Ivo Karlovic at 2015 Halle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a tough one to lose,\u201d said Isner. \u201cI don\u2019t know how many match points I had, I\u2019m sure it\u2019s a lot. I swear I thought I won the match a few times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like he plays every point the same, so definitely no nerves. He gets a ball to hit, he hits it, and on this court it\u2019s hard to hit him a shot he is uncomfortable with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is an unbelievable ballstriker and a very good talent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yibing Wu made history at the 2023 Dallas Open when he triumphed over American veteran John Isner to lift his maiden title on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412401,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17451],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He won the Dallas Open break-less final despite facing 44 aces from the big-serving Isner","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412400"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412400"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}