Yang Zonghua

Yang Zonghua

Yang Zonghua is still fighting for the game. He has been fighting for more than ten years and won many awards. In 2008, he won the men's singles championship of the French Open Junior Group. He became the first Asian player to win the men's singles championship of the tennis grand slam in 17 years. He ranked first in the world junior group at the end of that year and won the International Tennis Federation (ITF) The title of champion of men's singles in youth group.

essential information

Name: Yang Zonghua（

Tsung-HuaYang

）gender: male native place: Taipei City, Taiwan Province, China birthday: March 29, 1991 weight: 80kg height: 177cm favorite Venue: hard ground playing method: right hand racket (two hands backhand racket) nickname: "xiaopang" year of career transfer: 2009 endorsement company: Li Ning main achievements: 2008 French Open Junior men's singles champion. He became the first Chinese Taipei athlete to win the Grand Slam youth competition. He became Zhang Depei's second person and the first person in Asia in recent 17 years. 2008 Wimbledon junior men's doubles champion 2008 Australian Open Junior doubles champion, singles runner up 2008 U.S. Open Junior men's singles semi-final 2009 ITF tour Guangzhou station won the first individual professional championship title. In 2009, he took a wild card to participate in the qualification of Shanghai Masters Cup and lost 2-6 / 6-4 / 5-7 to Italian Francois fogenini.

Characters and deeds

The most impressive image of Yang Zonghua is, of course, the scene after he won the championship in the men's singles competition of the youth group of the 2008 French Open - No.12 seed of the games, Polish player Yang Nowitz holding a small plate of runner up, with a lonely look on his face; while Yang Zonghua standing beside him, wearing a big red sportswear and a charming smile, although He was barely tall enough to reach his opponent in the final, but he was holding a huge championship trophy. Two people in height, expression and "plate" on the size of the obvious contrast, looked at it is really can't help laughing. A year later, the tennis season has come to Roland Garros. In Yang Zonghua's case, we can find two obvious changes: he, who just passed his 18th birthday, has bid farewell to his youth tennis career after the end of last season, and now he is a standard professional player; and his bright red Adidas shirt has been replaced by "Li Ning" Instead.

Sign a contract with Li Ning

As the first male singles champion in the youth group of Grand Slam events, Yang Zonghua's return to the holy land of glory one year later means the beginning of a new journey. Yang Zonghua, who was ranked 489th in the singles world at the start of the French Open, was able to take part in the adult competition with an automatic singles qualifying wild card because she won the youth competition in 2008. Although he was eliminated in the second round of the qualification and failed to enter the primary competition, for Yang Zonghua, who has just left the youth group and entered the adult world, it is also a very valuable experience for him to compete in the adult group of the grand slam for the first time. Interestingly, Yang Zonghua saw a lot of players who also wore "Li Ning" in the qualification, "there are more than ten male players in the qualification alone!" Curious Yang Zonghua learned from Li Ning company that Li Ning Company and ATP had a long-term cooperative relationship. Since the beginning of this season, the "ATP player shirt sponsorship program" has had about 20 top ranked signing players. from Li Ning Company and Yang Zonghua, people can easily find something in common - Li Ning company has established its leading position in China's sports brands, just as Yang Zonghua was ranked No.1 in the world of ITF youth group in 2008; now, Yang Zonghua wants to create a new world in professional tennis, hoping to continue his great success in youth group Just as Li Ning company wants to open up a new territory in the international tennis world, it is not only satisfied with China's number one position and its number one position in some other events. Yang Zonghua is also sensitive to this commonality: "at the beginning of this year, I visited the headquarters of Li Ning Company and learned about the history of this brand. In fact, the age of this brand is not much different from that of me, and it has just entered adulthood. However, Li Ning has become a very authoritative sports brand, and I have to make good achievements in professional tennis in order to repay the people who love me And Li Ning's love for me. " In fact, it was this visit to Li Ning company that impressed Yang Zonghua with the professionalism of the company's products. Take shoes for example, for tennis players who have to keep changing direction and speed on the court, its importance is self-evident. Yang Zonghua recalled: "when I visited Li Ning company, the company's designers carried out a series of tests on my foot shape, customized and produced unique shoes for me, and the red clay, grass and hard earth shoes were differentiated to meet my needs for participating in various competitions. I learned that Li Ning company has been engaged in professional research and development of tennis shoes since 2003, which is very leading in Chinese brands. " the tennis products of Li Ning company not only won Yang Zonghua's good first impression and quick trust, but also gained momentum from the founder of the brand: "I admire Li Ning, the boss of Li Ning company. I know that he used to be a very famous gymnastics prince in the world. He is not only a world sports celebrity in history, but also can compete with Michael Jordan is as famous as Ali, and can manage a successful enterprise so well. His road to success is the direction of my efforts. He told me that as long as I work hard and persist, everything is possible! "

Challenge and tempering

In his career, Yang is likely to have to accept that he spent most of his time fighting bigger and stronger opponents. As Yang Zonghua himself introduced: "my height is 177cm. When I was a teenager, the probability of meeting a player who is taller than me was about half; but since I entered the professional tennis world, when I met a player who is taller than me in the competition, it would account for about 80%!" However, Yang Zonghua did not regard his height of less than 1.80 meters as a disadvantage at all. He confidently said: "my height is not high, but it is not short! So in this respect, I don't have any big psychological obstacles to overcome, and I like to take the initiative to attack, so I will focus more on my own advantages He also made a decent analysis: "my playing style is all-round offensive, and the current world tennis trend is also all-round offensive."

Character style

From the positive attitude towards his height, people can fully see Yang Zonghua's personality and style: Although he is not tall, and has not yet had rich experience in professional events, Yang Zonghua always appears confident and domineering on the court, and seems to be born with no idea what stage fright is. At this point, Yang Zonghua is very grateful to his parents for their tutoring: "they have taught me since childhood that doing my best is the most important thing, and the heart of gain and loss should not be too heavy. At this point, I am very grateful to them, and I always try my best on the court." Asian culture stresses modesty and introspection, but in the life and death professional tennis world, this philosophy of inaction may not be able to survive. Maybe this is also a major internal factor that Asian tennis has not made a greater breakthrough so far? However, Yang Zonghua, with his sunny and confident character and super strength, has made a breakthrough in the men's tennis world dominated by European and American players, and gradually won the recognition and respect of his opponents.

Unforgettable memories

Of course, the best memory of Yang Zonghua's trip to Roland Garros is the "world champion dinner" held by ITF on June 2, the second week of the event. "I feel very excited and honored to be on the stage with Nadal, Jankovic and other top players at the end of 2008 season," Yang said Unfortunately, Nadal, the four time defending champion, was accidentally eliminated in the fourth round of this tournament, which also made him absent from this grand ceremony. Although Nadal and Yang Zonghua are the first in the adult group at the end of the year and the first in the youth group in the world, Yang Zonghua secretly reveals that Federer is his favorite male star. As for the reason, "he is too elegant to play!"

Top ranking

Yang Zonghua's first season as a professional player made a wonderful start at the beginning of the year. In a hope event held in Guangzhou, Yang Zonghua took part as the No.8 seed and finally won the championship, as well as his first prize of $1950 as a professional player. Since then, he has performed well in the top eight or even the top four in the hope events held in Melbourne, Japan and South Korea. His world singles ranking has steadily risen from 548 at the beginning of the season to 500, and he has won the 460th highest ranking in his career so far.

difference

However, Yang Zonghua still clearly felt the obvious difference between junior tennis and professional tennis. He said: "I feel that the most important condition for me to enter the professional ranking 150 is to improve my physical fitness, because the opponents in the professional tennis circle are very high, and I want to play 100% every game

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